In this post, we add a supervision tree to the poker application to handle failure.

http://blog.tokafish.com/playing-poker-with-elixir-pt-4/

As a rubyist many people might wonder why I am investing so much time in a new language. More than just “Why Elixir?” I am also answering why I am not investing more time in other new languages. This post is my personal take and a compilation of many language features envisioned by Joe Armstrong about Fault Tolerancy in light of the current languages situation.

I have spent the most exciting month this year totally immersed in learning all I could about Erlang and Elixir. That meant reading 2 books, more than 200 Elixir Sips screencasts, reading hundreds of posts and papers, and writing 11 very long posts on the subject. I compiled them all in this post. I hope it helps more people get started.

In this blog post you can read how to build a self-contained command line application with Elixir, with some help from escript. Check it out here.

I wrote a short tutorial on getting RethinkDB setup with Phoenix http://bit.ly/1PTw18M

I posted a comparison of Dogma and Credo:

http://trivelop.de/2015/11/26/comparison-dogma-credo/

I take a deep dive into Elixir’s Collectable Protocol and implement Collectable for some of my modules.

Learning Elixir’s Collectable Protocol

I wrote a post a couple days ago about getting a Digital Ocean droplet prepared for Elixir and Phoenix. I hope you enjoy it!

Setting up Digital Ocean for Elixir and Phoenix

I’ve made an elixirgolf.com web site, to help people learn to code in elixir.

You can submit solutions via twitter.com/ElixirGolf. Many thanks. Ben

I made a little API client for the Ninjaproxies service :)

https://github.com/Zensavona/ninjaproxies/

This time, we utilize Phoenix’s beautiful channels functionality to create a live polling platform!

https://medium.com/@diamondgfx/building-a-strawpoll-clone-in-phoenix-23dcb2bc4972

Short recap of the first day after Credo’s intial release and a huge Thank You! to the community:

http://trivelop.de/2015/11/18/credo-first-24-hours/

In the third post in the series, we create a table process to perform accounting for a poker game, and it uses monitors and messages to coordinate with the child hand process.

http://blog.tokafish.com/playing-poker-with-elixir-pt-3/

My account of last night’s Portland (Maine) Erlang and Elixir meetup. On using Elixir/OTP to give robots the ability to assess their surroundings. We got a robot to become frightened when colliding in the dark. http://jfcloutier.github.io/robotex/#november-17-2015

Integrating Phoenix with React and Redux using channels. A follow-through example, with code.

http://10consulting.com/2015/11/18/phoenix-react-redux-example/

Have you missed the simple_format Rails helper in your Phoenix project? You no longer have to implement it yourself!

https://github.com/michalmuskala/simple_format

Still not much coding, I was mainly planning the protocol and interaction between nodes. Two classes of events are designed for nodes to be able to join and leave a group and also for advertising their share of the work.

More details at http://dbeck.github.io/Scalesmall-W1-Combininig-Events/

If you want to know why we should educate people instead of shouting at them and how my new tool Credo can help, read the announcement post:

http://trivelop.de/2015/11/16/introducing-credo-code-linter-for-elixir/

TL;DR Credo is finally out. Get it via Hex and on GitHub.

I wrote an Elixir library to handle non-strict URL operations, including parsing from string, serializing to string, and wildcard-matching different URL components. It’s a rather faithful port of a Ruby Gem I wrote a few months ago.

It’s called Fuzzyurl: https://github.com/gamache/fuzzyurl.ex

Docs here: http://hexdocs.pm/fuzzyurl/0.2.0/Fuzzyurl.html

Hope it’s useful!

I build a package to support 256 ANSI colors for Elixir command-line applications, which will also power the gorgeous UI of Credo once it is released next week.

Get Bunt via GitHub: https://github.com/rrrene/bunt