Rails is overkill for an api, I think grape https://github.com/intridea/grape https://github.com/intridea/grape has a lot of potential here. Put node.js in fro

Rails is overkill for an api, I think grape https://github.com/intridea/grape https://github.com/intridea/grape has a lot of potential here. Put node.js in front of something like grape and you have the best of both worlds.