You can also use the bracket-based access syntax like this: @company.country[:name]

Furthermore, the bracket-based access syntax transparently ignores nil values. When trying to access anything on a nil value, nil is returned:

This would work just fine, but perhaps won’t transmit intent as good as an if/else or a separate view function would.

For me it seems top work arbitrary deep:

iex(1)> nil[:i][:can][:go][:as][:many][:levels][:i][:want]
nil

I also like using the view module for doing that kind of stuff, which allows my templates to need less amount of logic. They just display what’s given.

def render("myview.html", assigns) do
    country_name = assigns.company[:country][:name] || "Unavailable"
    render_template("myview.html", Map.merge(assigns, %{country_name: country_name}
end