Autoformat Your Code
Auto-formatting code is good, and you should be doing it all the time. Why? It helps you write better code in real-time, preempt trivial discussions, and maybe even democratize programming. ...
Elixir
What We Learned Porting a Rails App to Phoenix
Tilex, our Phoenix port of Today I Learned, is coming really well. After a personal hiatus for RailsConf prep, I’m back full-swing. My coworkers have really been bringing quality commits as well, and I feel we are very close to a successful port. ...
Reset an Ecto Heroku Postgres Database
We introduced some breaking database changes to our Phoenix port of Today I Learned on Friday; today I deployed them to staging. Resetting an Ecto Heroku database, with new seed data, turned out to be a little tricky, and I wanted to document what I learned. ...
Porting TIL from Rails to Phoenix: Initial Commits
Last week, I started a new project: porting Today I Learned from Ruby on Rails to Phoenix (Elixir). ...
Why Elixir?
I’ve been learning and using Elixir lately, and loving it. More than once, I’ve been asked some version of the question: why are you learning Elixir? What makes this language unique? I thought I’d take a moment and try to distill my rationale. ...
Recreating Elixir's Enum.sum
I’m learning Elixir, and today as an exercise, I was challenged to recreate Enum.sum using recursion. Here’s my solution. ...