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Contributing to Open Source: Adding subdomains to the Addressable gem

May 22, 2023

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Hi, I'm Chris. I'm the creator of GoRails, Hatchbox.io and Jumpstart. I spend my time creating tutorials and tools to help Ruby on Rails developers build apps better and faster.

About This Episode

The addressable gem adds some nice features over Ruby's built-in URI class, but it doesn't have any helpers for extracting subdomains. In this lesson, we'll add some methods to Addressable to make accessing subdomains easier.

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