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Ruby User Authentication with Rails Password Hashing and Sign In Creating the User model: Part 2

Austin Buddington
Austin Buddington
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Posted by Austin Buddington
Austin Buddington
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Could also name this method `downcase_email!` to follow the ruby community's convention for naming dangerous methods

Also, The method could be called before_create since there is no reason to call it after the email string has been normalized and saved.