tmvsiva
Newbie here:
I have a simple application that starts with the Supervisor. It periodically IO.puts some diagnostic information.
Is it possible to run the application with “iex -S mix” and retain a windowed command line within iex so that I can see clearly what commands I am typing and yet see the diagnostic information scroll by above?
Right now anything I type will be interleaved with the program output. Any help would be most appreciated.
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sahilpaudel
Can you please show the output here like what are you trying to run and what you getting ?
Bascially you can start you application with
and run commands within the application context.
NobbZ
No, the feature you are asking for is currently not supported in
iex, and will probably need to be supported inerlfirst, asiexis mostly just a shallow wrapper around it.tmvsiva
Noted, NobbZ. Thank you.
I think I made the classic error of not explaining my problem but instead diving into an attempted (imagined) solution.
What I am really looking for is a clean way to interact with an already running system using iex — changing state variables for example. Maybe this needs to be in a separate window from the text output of that system. I think I’ve seen demos of Elixir with people doing that.
NobbZ
Well, you can start one node that just dumps your logs, and connect a remote shell.
Or you dump your logs to a file, not doing
IObased calls at all, butLoggeronly. Start withiex -S mixand enjoy the clean shell, have a second terminal that doestail -fon the logfile(s).tmvsiva
I didn’t know about nodes at all. Digging into it now, many thanks!