Hi all!

I’m starting my first project with Elixir and Phoenix. I have a function in a context that creates a record and fires some asynchronous code using Task.start. This task fetches data from a local URL and updates the newly created record.

I want to reuse this code for my seed data, but the process seems to finish before the Task.start has finished running, so the seed records are not being updated with the complete data.

The code works as expected from iex -S mix.

Is there any way to force the process to wait until the Tasks are finished, without using Task.async? The only thing that comes to mind is a loop that counts the records in the DB that have not yet been updated, and sleep for a second if there’s any, but I’d like to try to find a better solution.

Thanks!