Ruby on Rails patterns - decorator vs presenter

Question

There is all sorts of talk lately in the Ruby on Rails community about decorators and presenters.

What is the essential difference between the two? If there is, what

Answer 1

I suggest you to check this - Exhibit vs Presenter.

Decorator is a design pattern that is used to extend the functionality of a specific object by wrapping it, without effecting other instances of that object. In general, the decorator pattern is an example of the open/close principle (the class is closed for modifications, but available for extensions).

Both the exhibit and presenter patterns are a kind of the decorator pattern.