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.

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

Rails Class Collisions

Working around Rails generator errors when existing constants collide with generated class names

rails how-to

Quick Tip: SSH Config

Create short hostname aliases in ~/.ssh/config to simplify SSH connections

ops how-to

An Experiment in Remote Pairing

Using iChat video and screen sharing on Mac to pair program from home

code business

Everything I Need to Know About Pair Programming Etiquette, I Learned From My 4 Year Old

An interview with a 4-year-old about focus, respect, and distractions while pairing

code personal