API Versioning for Rails Routes

Question

I\'m trying to version my API like Stripe has. Below is given the latest API version is 2.

/api/users returns a 301 to /api/v2/users

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Answer 1

I'm not a big fan of versioning by routes. We built VersionCake to support an easier form of API versioning.

By including the API version number in the filename of each of our respective views (jbuilder, RABL, etc), we keep the versioning unobtrusive and allow for easy degradation to support backwards compatibility (e.g. if v5 of the view doesn't exist, we render v4 of the view).