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Versioning the API

Explore the concept of API versioning and its importance in Rails application development. Learn to organize your API routes with namespaces and set up version directories for scalable and maintainable APIs. Understand different versioning patterns and best practices to help manage changes without disrupting users.

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At this point, we should have a route mapping using a namespace. Our routes.rb file should look like this:

Ruby
Rails.application.routes.draw do
  # API definition
  namespace :api, defaults: { format: :json } do
    # We are going to list our resources here
  end
end

Now it is time to set up some other constraints for versioning purposes.

API versioning is the practice of effectively managing changes to an API by creating a different version with the required changes rather than editing the one currently being used.

It would be best to get into the practice of versioning as soon as possible since it will ensure a better final structure for our API. It also gives developers who are consuming our API the opportunity to adapt to new ...