I must confirm to myself by typing it, that ruby will allow you to leave off curly braces when a hash is passed as the last argument in a method
another note to self: validations to remember: presence, uniqueness, length, format - database level uniqueness is to create and index on the column with unique: true, presenece validation at the database level is null:false - before_save is a callback for before saving and you should save things you want to be unique as downcased because some databases won't recognize case
finishes chapter 5
Merge branch 'modeling-users'
rspec being very annoying and strange