A few weeks ago, an announcement was made referring to the imminent inclusion of Rails API into Rails core. Until now, Rails API has been a separated project and people have been using it through the rails-api gem. Santiago Pastorino and I have been working on bringing Rails API into Rails for a while. After some further discussion, bug fixes and last-minute changes, the corresponding pull request
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