A collection of videos to help people get more familiar with the basics of Elixir.

https://elixircasts.io/learn-elixir

Inspired by hirb, Scribe’s latest release overrides Inspect to print lists of maps as tables. Simply installing the package will enable by default.

https://github.com/codedge-llc/scribe

Check out the Episode 7 on 10 Killer Elixir Tips

https://medium.com/blackode/10-killer-elixir-tips-7-62efc9c5aa14

Happy Coding…

Rexbug, the Elixir wrapper for the :redbug tracing debugger has hit 1.0.0! It now prints the tracing information in pretty Elixir syntax and supports complex matches in function arguments.

GenQueue helps create a common API for your background job needs. Switch from Redis to RabbitMQ to GenStage - or use them all. Unified testing support included. link

Current Adapters include:

• GenQueue Exq - Redis-backed job queue.
• GenQueue TaskBunny - RabbitMQ-backed job queue.
• GenQueue Toniq - Redis-backed job queue.
• GenQueue Verk - Redis-backed job queue.
• GenQueue OPQ - GenStage-backed job queue.

Cloud Hosting API

Using Hcloud API in Elixir

Published at https://hex.pm

Checkout https://hex.pm/packages/hcloud

Docs are not still available. If you like to contribute check out the package at github .

Fell free to contribute

Thank You.

Article discussing a problem and quick solution we developed for adding GIT information to built artefacts.

http://crowdhailer.me/2018-02-18/git-status-for-elixir-builds/

In this episode we FINISH the Statwatch project!!!

The 3 main improvements we make to it in this video are:

1. We make the profile routes use names instead of IDs
2. We make a plug to authenticate admin users
3. Styling and content

The entire development of Statwatch is screencasted in this playlist

You can see the finished project at http://statwatch.me

Ravenx version 2.0.0 has been released! This major version separates strategies in other packages in order to avoid dependencies of functionality you don’t need to use.

Supported strategies and their packages / repos are described in the README.

https://hex.pm/packages/ravenx

Entity Component Systems is a severely underlooked design pattern from the realm of game development. Now implemented in Elixir!

https://yos.io/2016/09/17/entity-component-systems/

I recently learned a bit about how module attributes really work, and what we might use them for. Turns out I was wrong about a few things!

http://devonestes.herokuapp.com/whats-the-deal-with-module-attributes

Generating test cases by hand can be slow, tedious, and error prone. Let’s use property testing techniques to test a Base58Check encoder (that we wrote in a previous article) against an external, command line oracle that we know is correct!

certifi version 2.2.0, a carefully curated collection of Root Certificates for validating the trustworthiness of SSL certificates while verifying the identity of TLS hosts for #Erlang based applications has been released:

https://hex.pm/packages/certifi

This is the latest security update.

Just published the second part of my blog post about testing in Elixir (particularly using Mox). Check it out at: https://medium.com/onfido-tech/the-not-so-magic-tricks-of-testing-in-elixir-2-2-acdd0368572b

Securing your application’s main channel of communication against all kinds of attacks is never in vain.

One of the most important features of an API, besides usability, is resilience. A big aspect of a more resilient API is a restricted amount of information communicated. This is important to keep in mind, since every bit of information you give away, aids in an attack against your API.

So let’s have a look at how we can fortify our APIs against one kind attack: timing attacks.

https://sealas.at/blog/2018-02/fortifying-apis-timing-attacks/

I’ve written a post about setting up your Phoenix application to receive incoming webhooks. Check it out at: https://simplabs.com/blog/2018/02/14/handling-webhooks-in-phoenix.html

A fast, anonymous, and scriptable blockchain written in Elixir. Check it out at https://github.com/ultradark/ultradark

It’s so easy to set up Docker for your Elixir Application and run it locally or in production. I’ve written a quick introduction how Docker works and how you can set it up to run multiple with containers. https://pspdfkit.com/blog/2018/how-to-run-your-phoenix-application-with-docker/

Paginator is a new library that adds support for cursor based pagination to Ecto.

If you don’t know what cursor based pagination is or why you should use it please read the following article: http://use-the-index-luke.com/no-offset.

GitHub | Hex | Documentation

Please enjoy and feel free to give feedback!

Changing Primary Keys on an existing table sounds straight forward, but there’s a few hoops you need to jump through.

Here’s how I did it with Ecto:

https://niallburkley.com/blog/changing-primary-keys-in-ecto/