MDodge0811
Hey all,
I’m pretty new to Elixir and am working my way through a handful of books. Most of the books I have were all written prior to 1.9, and thus have all their instructions written around Mix New generating a config/config.exs file. Now that it doesn’t, I’m not sure exactly how to handle the config file.
Is anyone able to explain where things once in the config file now go? Do I just create my own?
Thank you!
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Eiji
If you know that something have changed since
xrelease then it’s worth to check it’s announcement.Here are official sources:
MDodge0811
Thank you. I had read that.
I suppose I’m just still confused by it. I’m not sure how to translate these notes into “Okay, this code goes here now not there.”
Eiji
By default
config/config.exsis not generated because it was wrongly used inElixirlibraries. Please look thatElixiris not working like aframeworkwhich forces many things like for example file names. You can freely defineMyModulemodule insidesome_module.exfile. The same goes to using or notconfig.It’s up to you if you decide to
import Config(which is recommend way now asMix.Configis soft-deprecated).This means that the real question is:
A typical answer for this question is:
You may decide to not use a
Configwhen for example you want to store the changes of configuration made at runtime, but such situations are called edge-cases. For a typical application it’s ok to useconfig/config.exsas in books you’ve read.MDodge0811
Okay, that helps. Thank you very much.