Learn how Bleacher Report has trained all of our Ruby devs to be Elixir devs. If you’re considering adopting Elixir or wondering how to get started with Elixir, this article will help get you started.

You will have to wait 24-48 hours longer for this week’s ElixirWeekly, since I am attending ElixirConf and will try to include some first impressions during the conference!

If you are here as well, be sure to say “Hi!”.

Laboratory is an Elixir plug that allows developers to turn feature flags on/off in Phoenix or any plug-based web app. This article walks through how to set up feature flags in a Phoenix project using laboratory.

Kane is a simple library for using Google’s Pub/Sub service in your Elixir app. It has support for both publishing and subscribing, and has a straightforward API that’s easy to use. Give it a try and let me know what you think!

https://github.com/peburrows/kane

There are two ways of dynamic function creation with arity using Elixir Macros. For both of the ways, the first thing is creating dynamic args.

https://medium.com/@mustafaturan/define-dynamic-functions-with-dynamic-arguments-arity-using-elixir-macros-a28241d4f119

Currently we have a few challenges but more will come soon

Google + Auth = Goth

Goth is a simple library to generate and retrieve OAuth2 tokens for use with Google Cloud Service accounts. It can either retrieve tokens using service account credentials or from Google’s metadata service for applications running on Google Cloud Platform.

https://github.com/peburrows/goth

Haiku lets you generate memorable names (e.g. “quiet-morning-5933”) similar to Xaddress or Heroku. Supports custom words, custom delimiters, and custom reducer functions.

I just released the version 0.1.0 of Pushex.

Pushex allows to easily send push notifications, and has a sandbox mode to make testing easy.

Sending a push notification is as easy as

Pushex.push(%{alert: "Hey there!", to: ["apns_token1", "apns_token2"], using: :apns)

Give it a try, I would love to have your feed back!

https://github.com/tuvistavie/pushex

Diplomat is a library for interacting with Google’s Cloud Datastore. It has support for transactions, queries, all supported datatypes.

Long term goals include but are not limited to:

• Ecto support
• gRPC support for remote calls (which also implies http/2 support)

I just released v0.1.0 recently (which included upgrading to the v1beta3 API), but it’s currently deployed in production and performing well. Give it a try and let me know what you think!

https://github.com/peburrows/diplomat

Read about how Bleacher Report handles HTTP logging in their Elixir/Phoenix services.

https://dev.bleacherreport.com/elixir-phoenix-centralized-http-logging-aa50efe3105b#.uiim6kqrt

My experience with non id primary keys in Phoenix.https://bennycwong.github.io/post/custom-primary-keys/

I wanted to create a Mix project that made my web server feel like Heroku. Here is part 1 of 3 on how I did it.

https://hashrocket.com/blog/posts/how-i-built-my-own-heroku-for-phoenix-apps-part-1

Hi guys ! I have just released part-3 of Solve your sudoku puzzles with Elixir !

http://goo.gl/W36fx9

Here’s an overview, case study and comparison to Phoenix of the V part of Rails MVC as experienced across the years.

Read more on the Phoenix on Rails blog.

I just released a new version of Credo, the static code analysis tool that emphasizes code consistency and teaching.

If you ever wondered why not Erlang, and why Elixir was born.

http://railsware.com/blog/2016/08/23/important-overhaul-elixir-did-to-erlang-to-become-appealing-web-development-tool/

How to configure Travis CI to analyse your pull requests with Credo.

https://medium.com/@fazibear/automated-elixir-code-review-with-github-credo-and-travis-ci-986cd56b8f02#.u5bgenk0c

How to Deploy Elixir Application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk with edib, exrm and docker.

https://medium.com/@fazibear/deploy-elixir-application-74e1bce100c6#.6o76oekav

I’ve been scraping programming language subreddits to compare them by number of subscribers since April. I originally wrote the scraper in Go, but rewrote it in Elixir. The newly merged code is on github and the results for August are on the Ripley site