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.
Render Partial for Email Template
A workaround for rendering partials inside Rails mail templates using relative paths
Discrimination Based on Appearance
Why workplace discrimination over tattoos, piercings, and hairstyles is wrong
Rails Sweetness
Using single-table inheritance in Rails to model different address types for users and businesses
Almost Beta-worthy
Six weeks in, the startup prototype is nearly ready for private beta testers
Creative Commons
A look at the Creative Commons movement and Google's donation to their annual fundraiser
Thumbnails with RMagick
Generating proportionally scaled image thumbnails in Rails using ImageMagick and RMagick
Rails link_to and HTML options
How to pass HTML attributes like title to the Rails link_to helper method
Life outside the Valley
You don't need to be in Silicon Valley to build a successful tech startup
Rocking the Vote!
Inspired by Danah Boyd's talk on cynicism and the importance of young voters registering
Self-Referential, Many-to-Many Relationships
Modeling a friends list in Rails using has_and_belongs_to_many with a self-referencing join table