Qqwy
Phoenix: alias and Model names
I am working on my first Phoenix project.
One thing I do not like right now, is that all models are prefixed with the project name. I can understand that this is nicer from a code-hierarcy perspective (less conflicting module names), but many of my files now look like this:
defmodule MyProject.Foo do
alias MyProject.{Repo, Something, SomethingElse, YetAnotherModel, Bar, Baz, Qux, ...}
end
Is there a better way?
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wojtekmach
You can see how HexWeb solves it:
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Qqwy
One of the things I did not know, and thanks for @wojtekmach for pointing this out to me, is that the web/web.ex is a wonderful file where you can list things that all your models/views/controllers require(/import/use) in a single place.
This makes life already a lot easier. 
dgamidov
As far as I understand, it is Elixir naming convention.
I have a lot of same alias App.{Repo, ..}, too 
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boddhisattva
Thank you for your prompt responses @wojtekmach, it was fun to learn these new things today with the Elixir and Phoenix way of doing things
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