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.

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Quick Tip: Rails 2.1 Time Zones

Setting your application time zone in Rails 2.1 with config.time_zone

rails how-to

Quick Tip: Setting time zone on Ubuntu Hardy

A one-command way to configure the time zone on your Ubuntu server

ops how-to

Nginx 405 Not Allowed Error

How page caching with nginx causes 405 errors on POST requests, and how to fix it

ops rails how-to

Quick Tip: Form Partials

A cleaner way to render shared form partials in Rails 2.1

rails how-to

Quick Tip: named_scope

Building chainable, reusable query scopes in Rails 2.1 with named_scope

rails how-to

Quick Tip: SSH Backspace

Fixing the broken backspace key when using SSH from Mac Terminal

ops how-to

Quick Tip: Route Associations

Simplify nested resource routes with has_one and has_many shorthand options

rails how-to

Quick Tip: has_many :through => checkboxes

Using Rails' auto-generated *_ids= setter to manage many-to-many associations via checkboxes

rails how-to

Quick Tip: Capistrano SSH Ports

How to configure Capistrano to connect on a custom SSH port

rails ops how-to