Community RESTful HATEOAS Best Practices Comprehensive guide to building REST APIs that reach the Glory of REST (Richardson Maturity Level 3) in Ruby on Rails. Contains 47 rules across 9 categories, ordered by the request/response lifecycle — from resource URI design through hypermedia link relations to API evolution. When to Apply Reference these guidelines when: - Designing new REST API endpoints and resource URIs - Adding hypermedia controls ( links, affordances) to API responses - Implementing content negotiation with HAL, JSON:API, or vendor media types - Building paginated, filterable,…