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.

The Tip of the Ruby #1

Understanding the difference between or and || operator precedence in Ruby

ruby how-to

Search Engine Optimization for Coders

Notes from a Desert Code Camp talk on practical SEO tips for developers

seo code how-to

Discover your missing specs

A rake task that finds app files without corresponding RSpec test files and generates them

rails testing how-to

Firefox Profiles

Using Firefox profiles to separate your development extensions from personal browsing

code how-to

Gravatar Problems

Debugging and fixing the Mephisto Gravatar caching plugin for production use

rails ops

Striving for 100 percent

Weighing the practical value of 100% code coverage versus focusing testing on high-impact functionality

testing code

Rails Testing Tips: Testing a helper with a block

Two approaches to testing a Rails helper method that accepts a block using RSpec

rails testing how-to

Rails Testing Tips: Stubbing controller methods in a helper test

In RSpec helper tests, the controller context is self -- use self.stub! to mock controller methods

rails testing how-to

iBug

Firebug for the iPhone -- a small webserver that forwards log messages to the Firebug console

code how-to

Nads: My First Firefox Extension

Building a Firefox extension that hides ads on web pages using XUL and JavaScript

javascript code