Elixir Blog Post: Tips for Improving Your Elixir Configuration

This post is so helpful! Thanks a lot!

Especially I like the last part about using Code.require_file/2. But I tried that and found it doesn’t work in my release app. It is due to the second parameter of Code.require_file/2 which is the relative file path. In my Dockerfile I copy only release output(under _build/prod/rel/) to my workdir, though there is no config/ directory. So I change the file path like that:

case config_env() do
  :prod -> Code.require_file("runtime.prod.exs", __ENV__.file |> Path.dirname())
end

Then it works well. Anyway, thanks for the great post again!

Lots of great info I had no idea about! Thanks for sharing!

Hi @axelson
I have been following your blog post, but somehow I cannot start my app, I get the following error: Application testapp exited: shutdown Kernel pid terminated (application_controller) ("{application_terminated,testapp,shutdown}")

The code is the same as in your blog post.
When starting the app Core.require_file/2 returns [] . As it seems I am missing something, but don’t know what.
I have config/config.exs
config/runtime.prod.exs
config/runtime.test.exs
config/runtime.dev.exs
config/runtime.exs

config/config.exs does not have the line to import other configs.
Please help.

Thanks!