[richardjordan]

This has come at a time I'm looking at Grape mounted in a Rails app for an API layer. Is there a simple way to explain to those of us with less API building experience what the pros/cons are of using rails-api over something like the Grape gem?

[steveklabnik2]

It's the exact same as Sinatra vs. Rails: build it all yourself vs. using a framework that has it built for you.