siiky
I’m working on an internal project at work where we don’t want to have a registration page open to the public. The team is small, so we can easily manage with a more manual, but closed, process (i.e., an admin creating a registration magic link for a new user).
The problem is, who creates the first admin? My initial thought was I’d write a Mix task mix foo.register --email foo@bar.com, however, my understanding is that Mix tasks aren’t available on releases.
Any ideas on how to solve this problem? And more generally, how do people usually implement companion programs/subcommands for Elixir projects?
Thanks in advance!
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rhcarvalho
You can start an iex shell connected to your production release and execute arbitrary commands, such as creating users.
(You can use the
remotesubcommand)siiky
Oh nice! I missed that whole section of the page, I knew about
start/stop, but not the others.To confirm I understood it right, though – let’s say I have the project running as a service (SystemD or what have you), if I then SSH into the server and run
/path/to/foo remote, it starts a new Elixir shell connected to the running foo project?rhcarvalho
Correct.
If you prefer to write scripts, have a look at mix release — Mix v1.19.5 and the “Helper Module” section. Also look at the files generated when you create a release, that will give you inspiration for how you can encapsulate reusable commands for operating your project.
siiky
Cool, thanks a lot!
Dmk
Ok just add the user with the hashed passwords to your seeds