Matthew O'Riordan

3 years ago, being a newbie to Ruby and Rails, I found the acceptance test workflow tedious, specifically in regards to trying to debugging failing full stack browser tests.  Inspired by a gem by Joel Chippindale, I created Capybara Screenshot with the...

I’ve been an advocate of using locals over instances variables within Rails controllers for some time because it’s more predictable and explicit. The number of times you get a surprise because an instance variable is not set, or worse, you have no idea...

I have found a few Remember the Milk plugins to date, but I have had very little luck with them because they either did not work, or they did not provide any feedback when a task was added.
All I want from a RTM plugin for the brilliant Alfred is to quickly add an RTM task by press alt-Space, typing ‘rtm my task text here’.  This plugin delivers that - an extremely quick way to add a task when you want to with minimal key strokes....

Just finished reading the article Concurrency on Heroku Cedar which describes a simple method to run a Resque queue concurrently with your web process on Heroku i.e. one (free) dyno will run both your website and your Resque queue.  Whilst I would not...