What is reduce and why should I care?
When working with functional programming the word reduce and reducer isn't uncommon. Here we go through the concept to understand the value of reduce.
New in blog
Don’t be scared of using the same table for different schemas in Ecto
With the contexts of phoenix 1.4 it might become hard to figure out where to put schemas that are being used by multiple contexts. Here I'll talk a bit about how we can get around that
Elixir and continuous delivery with Circle CI
Deploying software is boring, it's basically just following the same steps over and over again. That's where continuous delivery comes in. This is how I did it with elixir on Circle CI
Getting familiar with how GenServer uses send and receive
Learn how elixir processes work by looking at a simple implementation of GenServer.
Blazing fast CI suite for Elixir on Circle CI 2.0
Slow CI suites can be quite frustrating. Here is I used workflows in Circle CI 2.0 to make my suite for elixir as fast as possible
Creating dynamic checkboxes and radio buttons in Phoenix
For some reason I always end up failing to connect label elements with radio buttons or checkboxes using the `for` attribute while generating the inputs dynamically. Here is two ways that makes this extremely easy.
Getting elixir app version from command line
Sometimes things are harder than they have to be. Here is how to get the app version defined in mix.exs from your terminal with mix.
Reading files from your priv dir in elixir
When running elixir in production your priv/ folder resides in the built app and that can sometimes cause issues if you're storing your static files in it. Here is how to make it work regardless of environment
Concurrent background jobs in elixir
Running jobs in the background without any dependencies is quite easy in elixir. Here is how you can do it concurrently.