Overview

Parse a version from the content type string and then use it in the environment variable.

Mime-version is a simple rack middleware gem to parse a version string out of the content-type in the http request.

The aim is to build a better way of version API calls.

For example: Content-type:text/html;vnd.example-com.foo+json; version=1.1 will be parsed into 1.1.

Setup

Rails 3: add an initializer: mime_version.rb require 'mime_version'

Rails.application.config.middleware.use MimeVersion do
end

in a controller or view or model: you can use ENV['version'] to determine what version of API