Musings of a startup junkie and Ruby on Rails nerd.

Welcome to Millarian! I write about web development, Ruby on Rails, consulting, and the occasional startup lesson learned the hard way.

Document Conversion on Heroku

Getting LibreOffice and ImageMagick working for PDF conversion on Heroku.

ruby heroku docpdf

Introducing DocPDF

A Ruby gem for document-to-PDF conversion and watermarking, with zero hard dependencies.

ruby open-source docpdf

Rails 6, Webpacker, and the Cocoon gem

A straightforward way to use the Cocoon gem in your Rails 6 project, using Webpacker.

rails how-to

Rails 6, Webpacker, and jQuery

Quickly add jQuery to your Rails 6 application using Webpacker

rails javascript how-to

Importing Heroku PostgreSQL to localhost

Importing a Heroku PostgreSQL database to your local machine, quickly and easily.

ops rails how-to

Easily Add An Instagram Feed To Jekyll

How to easily add an Instagram feed to your Jekyll site, while avoiding the gotchas.

code javascript how-to

Imagemagick On Heroku-16

I recently encountered some strange memory issues after upgrading to Heroku-16. I was a little surprised at what I found regarding Imagemagick on Heroku.

ops rails how-to

Jekyll Presentation at Ruby AZ

A presentation on the Jekyll static site generator from a recent Phoenix Ruby meetup.

ruby events community

How Twitter replaced my RSS reader

Twitter has become a fast growing communication platform. Can we use it as a replacement for an RSS reader?

personal community

Say hello to the new Phoenix OpenCoffee Club

The new Phoenix OpenCoffee Club website enables community members to ask questions, submit posts and keep up on news and events.

startups community