Phoenix in Action book: Running the code in 2023

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Some more info about the AuctionWeb.PubSub problem here:

Phoenix.PubSub in an umbrella app -- Phoenix in Action 1.4

I’m working my way through “Phoenix in Action 1.4” for the second time. The instructions have you create an umbrella app with two apps: auction and auction_web, and following the instructions I created the auction_web app with --no-ecto. Unfortunately, --no-ecto seems to be the root cause of continuing PubSub warnings/errors. I was successful squelching the PubSub warnings/errors for a few days while I was working on getting the auction_web app to display a list of items on a web page, but t…

I got my database set up (it’s still empty), and everything is working well. Anything the book said to put in a config.exs file, I put it in auction_umbrella/config/config.exs.

I finished chapter 7, and everything is working error/warning free. My database has several items in it, and they are displayed on the web page.

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On to chapter 8 and changesets.

My full setup:

 $ asdf list erlang
  24.3.4
 *26.1.2

 $ asdf list elixir
  1.13.4
  1.14.4-otp-24
 *1.16.0-rc.1-otp-26

phoenix v1.7.10