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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
If you're building something with shared functionality, extracting a base class can be helpful to create a shared place each class can inherit from. We'll explore how to do this for our API clients and one of the tricky things about accessing constants.