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24th February 2025

The couple times I’ve done API versioning it was with /v1/ or v1.domain.com. Both of these are the generally recommended pattern within rails. This article outlines a querystring based approach to API versioning and a much more flexible implementation strategy that avoids a lot of duplication and code maintenance.

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