Like a phoenix from the ashes

Mystical creatures are currently being used to describe successful and apparently not so successful or struggling tech companies.

If unicorns represent billion dollar startups, we should establish the phoenix as the creature that represents a company…

Writing a Blog Engine in Phoenix and Elixir: Part 5, Adding ExMachina

Latest Update: 01/26/2016

Introduction

As part of a little side series I’ll be doing, I’m going to start periodically covering various libraries in…

So glad you wrote and published this. There are many who would have killed to hang with and around Gary for several hours like that (me included lol) so hearing about what it was like is the next best thing, and it didn’t disappoint. That’s pretty much how I would have expected him to be, and the whole part about him moving his schedule around to…

Building a Phoenix API

After reading some tutorials about building APIs with Phoenix Framework, I saw that most of the posts are out of date. So, I decided to write a blog post that covers how to build a JSON API using Elixir + Phoenix from scratch.

How to Use Elixir Pattern Matched Functions Arguments

One of the coolest thing about elixir is pattern matching in functions.

It eliminates dumb forking, the canonical example being fibonacci. In ruby it looks like this:

Testing Password Confirmation in Ecto

Currently, we don’t actually validate that the password and password_confirmation values must match, nor are we including any tests to ensure when those two values do not match, so let’s correct this quickly!