Learning control logic - is there a simpler way to write these two functions?

[BartOtten]

@GazeIntoTheAbyss

you can use fragments to make it case-insensitive if you want

Even better: use column type ‘citext’ instead of ‘string’.

Case insensitive column in Ecto?

I wanted to do the same as the OP but wanted to enable the citext extension using a migration and found I could do the following: defmodule MyApp.Repo.Migrations.CreateUsers do use Ecto.Migration def change do execute "CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS citext", "DROP EXTENSION citext" create table(:users) do add :email, :citext, null: false add :password_hash, :string, null: false timestamps() end create unique_index(:users, [:email]) end end https://he…

And a heads up: makes sure someone can’t register a username which is already in the email column.