Ecto - General Discussion, Blog Posts, Wiki

This thread exists to aggregate learning resources about Ecto.

Feel free to add links to blog posts, articles, screencasts, etc. to the Wiki (this post) as well as in a new post in the thread (so everyone else is alerted as well) :023:

Release Updates

Ecto 2.0.0-rc is out!

Guides

Ecto for Beginners - Learn the basics of Ecto through a series of guides by Jonathan Birkholz
Ecto Basics - by Ryan Bigg
From Zero to Ecto in 10 Minutes by @geo
Ecto 2.0: The Database Tool for Elixir and Phoenix (screencast)
Using Ecto For Formula 1 Standings by @geo
Ecto’s insert_all and schemaless queries by @josevalim, creator of Elixir and member of Ecto and Phoenix teams.
Using mix to Easily Create an Ecto Repo by @geo
Connecting to Multiple Databases with Ecto by @geo
Many to many and upserts by @josevalim, creator of Elixir and member of Ecto and Phoenix teams.

Informative

Ecto - the past, the present, the future by @michalmuskala
Diving into Ecto - an in depth look at Ecto by Lew Parker (multi part series)
How Ecto differs from Ruby’s ActiveRecord - amberbit.com
Ecto for Rails developers - renderedtext.com
Combining an Ecto Model with an Arc Uploader in Elixir by @Joseph_Kain
What’s new in Ecto 2.0 - free ebook by @josevalim, creator of Elixir and member of Ecto and Phoenix teams.
RailsConf 2016 - ActiveRecord vs. Ecto: A Tale of Two ORMs by Brad Urani
Ecto, what about it? by @amandasposito
Leveling Up With Ecto - ElixirConf 2016 by @darinwilson

Useful topics

Ecto and Postgres schemas

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http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2016/04/ecto-2-0-0-rc-is-out

by @michalmuskala

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Let’s try to keep it to Ecto 2.0 posts?

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ActiveRecord vs. Ecto: A Tale of Two ORMs by Brad Urani

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I want to say hello to @geo - we have a bunch of his articles about Ecto in our wiki! :slight_smile:
He has just joined to our forum.

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Great presentation by @darinwilson:
Leveling Up With Ecto - ElixirConf 2016

It does not work from my laptop, but I downloaded PDF - it is ok.

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Many to many and upserts by @josevalim, creator of Elixir and member of Ecto and Phoenix teams.

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Just got email that “What’s New in Ecto 2.0 - First edition” is ready!
You can get it here.

Thanks book authors! It looks like it is a :gift: for Christmas and New Year! :grin:

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I just want to add that What’s New in Ecto 2.0 is incredible. I’ve had a million questions about child records, child records when you don’t have the id yet etc. and it’s addressed them all.

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