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Chris Oliver
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
Did you know serialize can be used for more than saving Ruby hashes as JSON or Yaml in your db? You can take any attribute and convert it to an object seamlessly with Rails using serialize and custom coders.