I’ve been looking for a Stripe Library over the past week and each one I looked at fell short in some regard. Most were “very alpha”, some had no tests, others isn’t even build. I first went the route of trying to fork/help but soon found myself reworking the API (instead of just mirroring a REST client) and so I decided to just go my own direction.

The repo is here and the package itself is here.

This is my first Elixir package so there might be some rough spots… in fact I’m sure of it!

The API is essentially what you would expect:

Stripe.Customers.create_subscription("customer_id","test-plan", [options])

This week, Jason Harrelson and I started a new Elixir-based screencast service. We produce bite-sized, introductory screencasts as well as longer, more involved series aimed toward intermediate and advanced Elixir developers. All screencasts are currently free (as of 10/2/15).

https://excasts.com

Power Assert provides descriptive assertion messages like the following.

  1) test Enum.at should return the element at the given index (PowerAssertTest)

     array |> Enum.at(index) == two
     |             |  |         |
     |             |  |         2
     |             |  2
     |             3
     [1, 2, 3]

It’s easy to use your project. You only replace ExUnit.Case into PowerAssert. This commit shows how to use PowerAssert.

Enjoy!

https://github.com/ma2gedev/power_assert_ex

This is an early morning experiment with Erlang and Elixir integration:

http://dbeck.github.io/Using-Ranch-From-Elixir/

Tried my hand at making a screencast. Will work on better format next time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=392&v=_7NNJLhAQ1k

I just published the first part of my tutorial series “Writing a Blog in Phoenix and Elixir”! https://medium.com/@diamondgfx/introduction-fe138ac6079d

https://cichykacik.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/google-oauth-2-0-authentication-in-phoenix-2/

http://pipe.cypresslab.net/function-composition-in-elixir/

Just added Phoenix and Ecto performance integration into Beaker v1.1!

https://github.com/hahuang65/beaker

A very interesting project based on ruby’s rbenv to easily switch between multiple versions of Elixir.

https://github.com/mururu/exenv

I’m starting a new project in Elixir. This LearningElixir post describes the first steps toward designing the application. http://bit.ly/1KDHK3m

I’ve created a new Elixir screencast aimed at beginners who want to learn the language step by step. For a limited time, you can get access to already recorded episodes and future episodes for $9.

LearnElixir.tv

My Announcement Blog Post

A mini review of the Elixir books I’ve read and which ones I’d recommend you go for if you’re just starting: http://chrismcg.com/2015/09/24/which-elixir-books-should-i-read/

I just published a free screencast on how to Deploy Phoenix to Heroku! Great as a reference for those who prefer a screencast rather than the written guide. Also great for those who are curious to see how quick and easy it is.

The fourteenth edition of Core Elixir looks at the two folding functions, which one to default to, how they work, and what further reading you might want to attempt.

Just released Beaker 1.0! It’s an Elixir metrics framework built on top of GenServer! http://github.com/hahuang65/beaker

A new Hex package that makes it easy to encrypt data with Ecto:

https://github.com/danielberkompas/cloak

It implements the approach I talked about in the following two blog posts:

• Encrypting Data With Ecto
• Changing Your Ecto Encryption Key

A Foreign Function Interface (FFI) for Elixir:

https://github.com/joshnuss/elixir-ffi

Makes it easy to call C functions from Elixir without needing Ports or custom NIFs

defmodule MyLib do
  use FFI.Library

  ffi_lib "libstdc++.so.6"

  attach_function :puts, [:string], :int
end

MyLib.puts(["Hello World from C stdlib"])

A nice little helper snippet for people who find themself wasting time writing boilerplate for catching “none of my functions matches” in controller actions.

Using this snippet you can safely write:

def some_action(conn, %{"myparam" => myparam}) when is_binary(myparam) do

without having to make a catchall function matching (conn, _) to match the non-valid uses of your action.

Code: https://gist.github.com/olivermt/b29e42e2cc537e9bf7f2

The idea behind pjax is that you update only the parts of the page that change when the user navigates through your app. However, unlike a normal AJAX app that returns only JSON from the server, a pjax request actually contains normal HTML that has been generated on the server. This HTML is only a fragment of the full page and Javascript is used in the browser to add the content to the page.

In this article I’m going to show you how you can add pjax to the Phoenix framework.

http://rny.io/elixir/phoenix/2015/09/20/pjax-in-phoenix.html