Tag: elixir

Testing HTTP in Elixir with ExVCR

Posted on by Emanuel Carnevale

Studying Elixir, I decided to write a client for an existing API and I wanted to do it in the correct way™: writing a complete test coverage.
My choice was to use HTTPoison (since I like Poison for JSON parsing) and ExVCR to write the API tests.

So, what is ExVCR? If you come from the Rails land, it’s the Elixir version of VCR, it:
“Record and replay HTTP interactions library for elixir. It’s inspired by Ruby’s VCR, and trying to provide similar functionalities.”
It allows you to make API calls and record those on “cassettes”, allowing you to replay the recordings at every test run, decoupling the test phase from the API server and permitting offline tests.

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LambdaDays 2017, FP concepts and their application

Posted on by Gianluca

In my last post I tried to summarize the main concepts expressed by Prof. John Hughes and Prof. Mary Sheeran in their wonderful keynote at the LambdaDays 2017.

If you didn’t read it, well, here it is. Go on, I’ll be waiting for you here 😁

…done?

Jokes apart, at the end of my summary I left a little bit of suspense regarding the topics of my next (this) post but I also gave a few hints about them.

So, without further ado, here there are the two “mysterious concepts”:

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LambdaDays 2017 – more than one month later…

Posted on by Gianluca

I know, I should have written this article a while ago but I couldn’t find the time…sorry 😞

Anyway…one month…how time flies!

Last February, thanks to 😘 Mikamai, I had the immense pleasure to attend to an astonishing conf.

For the ones who don’t know, LambdaDays is an international 2 days conference that has been held in Krakow for four years now.

Its main focus is the “umbrella topic” of “Functional Programming”.

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asdf the “easy to write and hard to read” version manager

Posted on by Gianluca

As a Rubyist one of the first thing you end up doing is to manage many different Ruby versions on the same machine. As a matter of fact, one of the first steps in setting up a new workstation is to install some kind of version manager like RVM or rbenv.

Unfortunately it doesn’t end up simply like this…

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Phoenix Framework: the assets pipeline

Posted on by Massimo Ronca

Updates

From the time I wrote part 1
of this short series, Atom has gained a new Elixir plugin based on Samuel Tonini’s Alchemist Server.
From the Emacs plugin, it inherits all the most notable features such as
autocomplete, jump to definition/documentation for the function/module under
the cursor, quote/unquote code and interactive macro expansion.
A feature reference along with some screenshots can be found at the atom-elixir page.
It also looks pretty good.

The assets pipeline

Assets pipelines are one of the most important features in modern web frameworks.
When working on this task, Phoenix developers have proven that they value
pragmatism over purity and have chosen to base their implementation on Brunch, a Node.js build tool that takes care of everything
related to assets management.
This choice has probably saved man-years of work, that would have inevitably delayed the release of a fully working pipeline system.
A very common counter argument is that this adds node as a dependency, but I
think it’s a negligible inconvenient, node is most probably already present on
the majority of developers machines.

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Phoenix, to the basics and beyond.

Posted on by Massimo Ronca

Introduction

Phoenix is the exciting new kid on the block in the vast world of web frameworks.
Its roots are in Rails, with the bonus of the performances of a compiled language.
This isn’t exactly a getting started guide, but a (albeit short) list of things you’ll have to know very soon in the process of writing a Phoenix application, that are just a bit beyond the writing a blog engine in 15 minutes by using only the default generators.
I assume previous knowledge of the Elixir language, the Phoenix framework and the command line tools

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