Elixir learnings - 2020 week 2

January 06, 2020

Erlang

iex

I learned that iex isn't technically a true REPL 5.

elixir

Application logging

I also got to take a deeper foray into application logging. I've been working on a more complex feature for work and would like to be able to track down any causes of bugs so IO.inspect and the like aren't going to be enough.

It turns out that logging in elixir is actually quite simple. As expected it follows industry practices of having different level support. Check out more at [6],[7].

The latest release of Elixir

A new release of elixir is in release candidate.

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.10.0-rc.0

Writing documentation

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/writing-documentation.html

Guards

Calling into functions that can throw

Ran into this

== Compilation error in file lib/vs_integrations/petco/pgr/pet.ex ==
** (CompileError) lib/vs_integrations/petco/pgr/pet.ex:11: cannot invoke remote function patient.client/0 inside guards
    (stdlib) lists.erl:1354: :lists.mapfoldl/3

Associated code

  def map_patient_to_pet(patient) when
        patient.client != nil
    do
    ...

You can write your own guards

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/guards.html

mix tasks

https://elixirschool.com/en/lessons/basics/mix-tasks/#custom-mix-task

Environment variables

https://elixirforum.com/t/how-to-use-if-or-other-condition-for-dev-or-prod/16235

https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/master/Config.html

Discovering nodes

http://elixir-recipes.github.io/concurrency/connecting-nodes-same-machine/

Ecto

Joining multiple tables

https://elixirforum.com/t/ecto-how-to-join-three-tables/14485

Scripting

https://thoughtbot.com/blog/is-elixir-a-scripting-language

Real world reference projects

https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com/tree/master/lib

exunit

Running a single test in exunit

It's possible to run a single test in exunit.

mix test /tests/path/to/test/some_test.ex:123

tags

You can create tags for unit tests.

Exmachina

Connection ownership

https://medium.com/@qertoip/making-sense-of-ecto-2-sql-sandbox-and-connection-ownership-modes-b45c5337c6b7

To spawn or not to spawn

https://www.theerlangelist.com/article/spawn_or_not

Blogs

Sources

  1. Stackoverflow
  2. Exmachina
  3. My bad ideas
  4. keathley.io
  5. REPL? A bit more [and less] than that
  6. Logger
  7. THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO LOGGING IN ELIXIR

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