Plugs Are to Elixir What Rack Is to Ruby
Jesse Herrick compares Plugs in Elixir to Rack in Ruby. Learn a bit of Elixir and its elegance with middleware and plugs.
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Elixir’s Ecto Querying DSL: Beyond the Basics
Thomas explores Ecto features, including query composition, joins and associations, SQL fragment injection, explicit casting, and dynamic field access.
Understanding Elixir’s Ecto Querying DSL: The Basics
Thomas looks at the basics of querying with Elixir's Ecto library, going through joins, associations, aggregation functions, and so on.
An Introduction to Elixir’s Ecto Library
Thomas introduces Ecto, Elixir's predominant library for working with databases, building a simple database-driven app using Ecto's four main components.
Comparing Rails: Exploring WebSockets in Phoenix
Benjamin Tan Wei Hao implements a heat map using Elixir and Phoenix in order to demonstrate how Phoenix compares to Rails 5.
An Interview with Elixir Creator José Valim
Nihal Sahu sits down with well-known Rubyist and creator of the Elixir language, Jose Valim.
Meet Elixir, the Laravel Way of Compiling Assets
Reza goes through Elixir, a Laravel addon for front-end asset management. Compilation, minification, optimization, versioning and more - check it out!
Phoenix for Railsies: Form Helpers and Models
Dhaivat Pandya pens his second installment in a look a the Elixir-based web framework, Phoenix. This post covers forms and helpers.
Phoenix for Railsies
Dhaivat Pandya takes an introductory look at Phoenix from a Rails perspective. Phoenix is a web framework written in Elixir on top of Erlang.
Elixir – The Love Child of Ruby and Erlang
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Ruby Colored Glasses: Elixir
One of the sweetest things about Ruby is its elegant syntax and developer friendliness. So how does Erlang fit in? It turns out a brilliant Brazilian name Jose Valim decided to view Erlang through Ruby colored glasses.