Sceopa - an open source blogging platform

First of all Congrats! on actually finishing a product and open sourcing it. I briefly read through the code base and tried out the product. Is this your first elixir app?

Thanks. It’s my second Elixir app. I feel this is a lot cleaner than the first so I’m learning.

I see! What are some of the challenges you faced learning elixir. What do you wish could be better?

Congrats! Do you have an example blog created with Sceopa?

Well as far as learning Elixir goes, I’ve been working through quite a few exercism exercises which have helped. I’m still very much a noob when it comes to OTP but am working through Elixir in Action to help with this. Overall I think there are a lot of good learning resources out there for the core language.

The two main difficulties I had were I guess the standard ones:

a) lack of libraries

e.g. For this project I wanted to have server-side syntax-highlighting. There are good libraries for this in python, haskell, and ruby, but not elixir (I ended up using Pandoc for this which is written in Haskell).

b) deployment

Setting up Heroku deployment and SSL was a bit of a pain, but mainly because I’m new to this. There are elixir/phoenix buildpacks for Heroku which are very helpful.

Good idea!

I’ve added a (hastily!) written example article here.

@tyro: Hey, I tried to register on yopmail temporary e-mail. I got message that e-mail was sent, but don’t get it in mailbox.

Hi, I use SendGrid for the emails, and it has tried to send an email to the yopmail address 4 times now. Each time it has been ‘deferred’ with a ‘Broken Pipe’ error. This could be because there is a problem with yopmail right now, or perhaps yopmail is possibly rejecting the activation messages if it believes they could be spam. Not sure, sorry!

Edit: it appears an email to another yopmail address was accepted by yopmail so not sure what happened with the first.

@tyro: Ok, I checked mail box one more time and I got a message. Looks like we need wait some time (don’t tested how long) for mail. Is it added to cron as a task or similar tool?

Use the force of Pattern Matching you much (or at least try ;))

above can be written as

defp put_email_key(%Ecto.Changeset{valid?: false} = changeset), do: changeset
defp put_email_key(%Ecto.Changeset{valid?: true} = changeset) do
  put_change(changeset, :email_verification_key, gen_email_key())
end