Feb 3, 2017Basic Authentication In Your Phoenix AppIt’s easy when you use Plug — It turns out that implementing HTTP Basic Authentication in your Phoenix app is easy when you use plugs. Let’s first see how the plug itself works: Adding a Module Plug This method of adding a Plug means that we add the Plug functionality inside a self-contained module. When the plug gets called, we’ll…Elixir3 min readElixir3 min read
Jan 31, 2017How (and when!) to store images in your database with Elixir & PhoenixMany developers store images in Amazon S3, a Git repo, or in a filesystem. I’m storing mine directly in my PostgreSQL database. As it turns out, that’s the ideal approach to the problem I’m solving… In the examples below, we’ll be working with an existing Ecto model called Recommendation, which…Elixir4 min readElixir4 min read
