I’m looking for guidance on using Igniter to rename both the application name(and its namespace) and database name in a Phoenix project. Could someone share a step-by-step guide or point me to resources to get started with this?
Context
I’m working on a project called Helpcenter to showcase how to use Ash and its powerful features. Along the way I realised that I can make it even more useful to developers by converting it into a starter kit that developers can clone and have:
Ash, Phoenix, SaladUI, and Oban pre-configured.
A UI for managing teams, users, and permissions.
Features like user invites and more.
The idea is simple: a developer clones the repo, runs a command to rename the app and database, and then focuses on building their unique features.
I found this shell script online for renaming, but I’d love to achieve this using Igniter instead for a smoother, more integrated experience.
Any tips, examples, or resources on how to set this up with Igniter would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks @zachdaniel .
I am happy to explore that path. Do you have any online resource(articles, documentation, repository) I can look at to get started?
First - thank you for your medium series.. it helped me a lot when I started with Ash and I recommend to anyone reading this!
I write the following not from knowledge - but in the hope I get corrected, so take with a large grain of salt
My (limited) understanding of the ash installer it that its an igniter wrapper around the phoenix express installer, found at: https://new.phoenixframework.org/myapp
The docs for express say: ‘Your Phoenix application name is taken from the path.’ So I assume that is passed through a plug as a path segment.
The ash installer passes the rest of the igniter tasks as query parameters ‘?install=phoenix,ash_admin’
I am naively assuming that igniter could also write the ash.gen tasks to compose domains & resources and gen seeds too if needed… ?
I’d suggest taking a look at the igniter installers for various projects to get a sense for it, and how the ash-hq.org installer composes igniter installers.
You can see the list of packages that use igniter via seeing what depends on it in hex.
