Posted the seventh of a continuing series of articles on similarities and differences between Erlang and Elixir. This article covers a few minor Erlang features that are “missing” in Elixir, and discusses techniques to work around the omissions.

http://daniel-azuma.com/blog/2016/06/06/family-ties-7-lost-and-found

Index of previous articles in the series: http://daniel-azuma.com/articles/family-ties/

Process Registries are an essential part of leveraging the OTP framework in complex system. In those post, I do a deep dive on what a Process Registry is, why we need them in the first place, and how to implement one using a GenServer. https://t.co/M0nN0p62eM

Coming back to the issue, when I had a free time during a weekend, I setup up trying to test sending messages directly to the process running the console.

https://medium.com/@olafura/faster-elixir-logger-part-2-ddb328eb31f4#.l2jgaoi5h

It’s a common need to have separate precompiled assets for admin panel or other heavy pages. Here’s how to do it.

Read more at Phoenix on Rails blog.

I was first inspired to look into this when I looked at this bug #4004

It looked like an interesting problem. I’m going to describe the process I used to solve it. I had used Poolboy before to make a request pool so I wouldn’t overload the service I was using, so I knew that I at least had a basic enough understanding so I could hopefully implement it.

https://medium.com/@olafura/faster-elixir-logger-part-1-8f5424396943#.7mnvu05vw

Setting up Ecto inside a Phoenix project is pretty trivial. But how easy is it to set up Ecto in a project that doesn’t use Phoenix? Easier than you might think. Here’s a step by step guide on setting it up from mix new to inserting a record. http://geoffreylessel.com/2016/from-zero-to-ecto-in-10-minutes/

Ever need to run a non-Elixir executable alongside your Phoenix app? With a little OTP, it’s easy!

https://shift.infinite.red/foreign-processes-and-phoenix-555179c24151

Both Rails and Phoenix can manage and deploy assets for you. But the approaches and solutions differ greatly.

Read more at Phoenix on Rails blog.

IoT hardware is limited in terms of available resources and uses lightweight application layer protocols for communication. Some of the popular choices include MQTT or XMPP. Michał Podwórny takes a look at something quite different: Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP).

http://codetunes.com/2016/iot-with-elixir-and-coap-part-1-example-on-how-to-easily-prototype-and-build-an-iot-platform/

Posted the sixth of a continuing series of articles on similarities and differences between Erlang and Elixir. This article covers guard expressions, discussing why guards look the way they do, and covering some extra guard-related features in Erlang and what they can tell us about both languages.

http://daniel-azuma.com/blog/2016/05/31/family-ties-6-being-on-guard

Index of previous articles in the series: http://daniel-azuma.com/articles/family-ties/

ReadRepos is a simple master-slave database access package for Ecto.

By using this package, you can access slave databases randomly like below:

MyApp.Entry |> MyApp.Repo.slave.all
MyApp.Entry |> MyApp.Repo.slave.get(1)

https://github.com/kenta-aktsk/read_repos

Once again, I’m presenting good parts of Rails waiting in Phoenix for those that transition between the two.

Read more at Phoenix on Rails blog.

ExEnum is an enumerated type management package supporting Gettext, inspired by ActiveHash::Enum.

https://github.com/kenta-aktsk/ex_enum

Usage

defmodule MyApp.Status do
  use ExEnum
  row id: 0, type: :invalid, text: "invalid"
  row id: 1, type: :valid, text: "valid"
  accessor :type
end

You can use helper functions like below:

# index.html.eex
<td><%= Status.get(user.status).text %></td>

# form.html.eex
<%= select f, :status, Status.select([:text, :id]), class: "form-control" %>

# show.html.eex
<%= Status.get(@user.status).text %>

Elixir Twilio client, send SMS/MMS in elixir. You can check it out on github or hex

Xlsxir parses data to an ETS table and provides various functions for accessing the data. You can check it out on hex or github.

José Valim reveals his point of view about the role of functional programming in Erlang and Elixir and what are its real benefits: maintainable, distributed, fault-tolerant applications.

Beyond Functional Programming with Elixir and Erlang « Plataformatec Blog

It’s easy to add Font Awesome, a free icon webfont, to Phoenix project using nothing but Brunch to do so.

Read more at Phoenix on Rails blog.

MediaSample is a sample Phoenix project for developers interested in developing curation media, news media, blog, etc. This project is featuring many basic and general topics.

• authentication/authorization
• social login
• internationalization
• master/slave access to database
• many to many relationship
• pagination
• image file upload to S3
• send email via SES
• sitemap and RSS
• Facebook OGP and Twitter Cards
• full text search(Elasticsearch)

https://github.com/kenta-aktsk/media_sample

Learn about composing Ecto Queries by generating a Formula 1 Driver’s Championship standings table with a single trip to the database. The final query will include multiple joins and wheres, and will demonstrate select, group_by, and order_by as well.

http://geoffreylessel.com/2016/f1-standings-with-ecto/

Dayron is a flexible library to interact with RESTful APIs and map resources to Elixir data structures. It works similar of Ecto.Repo but, instead of retrieving data from a database, it has underlying http clients to retrieve data from external HTTP servers.

http://inaka.net/blog/2016/05/24/introducing-dayron/