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

If at all possible, I would suggest rethinking your urls so that the version isn't in the url, but is put into the accepts header. This stack overflow answer goes into it well:

Best practices for API versioning?

and this link shows exactly how to do that with rails routing:

http://freelancing-gods.com/posts/versioning_your_ap_is