Build a Secure API with Rails 8 - Part-1

Hi folks👋! In this post I want to share something I wish I had when I started building APIs with Ruby on Rails: a practical guide that takes security seriously from the beginning. When I built my first REST API, most tutorials I found were focused on getting something running quickly. They were great for learning the basics, but they usually skipped important topics like API versioning, authentication strategy, authorization, and security. Even when using AI tools to generate a “secure API”,