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I’m sharing my plugin here in forum after some time so it has time to mature and proof yourself.
I use Claude Code daily on a pr...
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localize_ecto is the forgotten member of the elixir-localize family. When I announced Localize_mcp yesterday I had forgotten that I hadn’...
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I have three modules, a Business which is associated Tags and Categories though join tables business_tags and business_categories. I inte...
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Hi all,
I’m Andy LeClair, an experienced engineer looking for my next role. I’m based out of Portland, ME, but I’m comfortable working r...
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terminusdb_ex is an Elixir client for TerminusDB, designed to make working with documents, schemas, graphs, and queries feel natural on t...
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SuperAPI will be hosting the Melbourne Elixir meetup this Thursday, July 2nd. The event will be held at Level 9, 505 Little Collins Stree...
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Hi everyone,
I’m available immediately for short-term Elixir/Phoenix contract work, especially technical debt remediation, production de...
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Tired of waiting for slow Ecto sandbox tests ?
At work, we have 45,000 tests - taking 12 minutes on a fast laptop and ~45 minutes of ela...
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Episode 307 of Thinking Elixir. Mark shares a bittersweet housekeeping update. The Thinking Elixir Podcast is winding down, with the fina...
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This is how I currently use binary IDs in my Phoenix apps.
Generate the app:
mix phx.new path/to/app --binary-id
Configure Ecto and mi...
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localize_ecto is the forgotten member of the elixir-localize family. When I announced Localize_mcp yesterday I had forgotten that I hadn’...
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Isaak Tsalicoglou
Built for the curious, this isn’t your average programming book—it’s nearly 500 pages of hands-on mentorship beyond cod...
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Torus is a plug-and-play Elixir library that seamlessly integrates PostgreSQL’s search into Ecto, streamlining the construction of advanc...
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I have three modules, a Business which is associated Tags and Categories though join tables business_tags and business_categories. I inte...
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Lets say I have map like this fetching from my database
%{"_id" => #BSON.ObjectId<58eb1a7a9ad169198c3dXXXX>, "email" => ...
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Hello!
tl;dr Announcing Oban, an Ecto based job processing library with a focus on reliability and historical observability.
After spen...
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Hello guys,
I have finally made it. I created an admin interface for a framework. It’s been on my todo list for years and with the curre...
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Hey guys! I have an Album module with an Ecto schema. The schema has a cover_url virtual field that depends on the cover column to return...
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Flop is an Elixir library that applies filtering, ordering and pagination parameters to your Ecto queries.
offset-based pagination with...
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I have a situation similar to create and insert 2 associated models.
In my case User has_many Others and Others belongs_to User.
I want...
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Hi,
Trying to make :utc_datetime the global default for Ecto schemas and migrations in our app, and use timestamptz as default datetime ...
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I’ve recently started a new Phoenix project using Elixir 1.11, Phoenix 1.5 and Ecto 3.5.
Everything runs smoothly but there is a recurre...
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Given a list of structs based on a schema
[ %App.Car{model: “E”}, %App.Car{model: “X”}, %App.Car{model: “Y”} ]
Is there no way to ins...
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Hello people!
I have a requirement to perform a select query with IN clause using tuples. I am using PostgreSQL. Example:
select * from...
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I couldn’t find an option in the Repo.update function that would skip setting updated_at. Is there a way?
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If I want to get the first error message from Ecto.Changeset, here’s what I have to do:
error_msg = changeset.errors
|> hd()
...
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I think I’ve tried 5 different graph database libraries in the last two days and not a single one has been able to connect to a remote/lo...
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Hey there, I wrote this low-level library recently, its goal is simply to lower the barrier between Elixir and SQL, and it does that by p...
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From another thread - making it a separate topic:
To make sure I understand correctly (because TFM seems ambiguous on this to me):
Wh...
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Hi all,
I’ve just started learning Elixir and Phoenix Framework, so please pardon my n00bness at this stage.
I’m trying to use Postgres...
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Okay, I’m having a heck of a time trying to figure out how to best handle the validation of belongs_to associations in Ecto. I’m sure I’...
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What is the way to convert
[ %{id: 7, name: "A", count: 1}, %{id: 8, name: "B", count: 1}, %{id: 9, name: "C", count: 0} ]
to
[ ...
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I’ve been experiencing a bit of timeout in production with respect to my queries. I’ve going through the docs and a few resources here, I...
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I seems like sqlite is kind of a no-go in phoenixworld - why is this the case? Certainly for development or smaller apps sqlite does very...
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Hi,
Repo.insert, Repo.update and Repo.delete all return {:ok, resource} or {:error, changeset}.
But Repo.get and Repo.get_by return res...
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I’m currently using a model button that referended is to another list of objects called items
When I make a POST call to the service it ...
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I am trying to use where exists (), which requires a fragment in ecto. I need to use a different table name for the subquery in different...
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I have an Entry with a many-to-many relationship to Tag. Like so:
defmodule Tag do
...
schema "tags" do
field :name, :string
e...
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There is a nice table showing the available data types used in Ecto Schemas: Ecto.Schema — Ecto v3.14.0
But I cannot find a correspondin...
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Recently we partitioned a table with 28 million rows by its ULID to improve query speeds and reduce query timeouts. To do this I ended up...
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There are unique fields in the User table which can cause conflicts. So we introuduced the on_conflict: :nothing.
Repo.insert_all(
Use...
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Hi everyone,
I finally had a bit of time to followup on this post: Best way to handle associations in single html form
In my previous p...
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The new(ish) project that I’m working on started with Ecto 2 so I had access to many_to_many, however I had issues actually using it so I...
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According to the stock example cited in elixir Ecto 3.4.6 docs …
post = MyRepo.get!(Post, 42)
post = Ecto.Changeset.change post, title: ...
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After calling mix ecto.create I get this error:
17:00:32.162 [error] GenServer #PID<0.412.0> terminating
** (Postgrex.Error) FATAL...
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I am using Ecto timestamps with postgres, I can see the timestamps() use the :naive_dateime but for my use case I wanted to store the ti...
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Hi,
I have to write a raw query for one of my project. But till now I have used ecto queries and don’t have much experience writing raw ...
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Hi there,
I am working with Ecto-Postgresql and I need to call all of the records from a specific table but the table has 40,000 records...
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Hi,
I have the following ecto query:
post_query = from p in Post, where: p.id == ^id, join: c in assoc(p, :comments), join: u in assoc(...
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Good day to you all.
I have been struggling to get a query involving like and ilike to work.
Can anyone assist me on this, please?
pro...
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Forgive me if this is obvious, but how does one delete a database record WITHOUT selecting it first? Ecto.Repo — Ecto v3.14.0 has exampl...
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In templates/appointment/index.html.eex:
<%= for appointment <- @appointments do %>
<tr>
<td><%= appoi...
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Is there a way to rollback a specific migration and only that one (“skipping” all the other ones)?
Would
mix ecto.rollback -v 200809061...
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I want to create a simple application (But one that is not tightly coupled with Phoenix). One of the things I am considering, is whether ...
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** (DBConnection.ConnectionError) connection not available and request was dropped from queue after 2733ms. You can configure how long re...
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Hello, I get Persian date from my client and convert it to normal calendar like this:
def jalali_string_to_miladi_english_number(persi...
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I have a User schema with a :from_id field set to type :string:
defmodule TweetBot.Repo.Migrations.CreateUsers do
use Ecto.Migration
...
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Hi all,
Trying to get some more clarity over utc_datetime and naive_datetime for Ecto:
The documentation above suggests that while ...
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I’m working on defining a simple Ecto schema for a table (in PostGres), but I don’t see where I can define a column as NOT NULL. Conside...
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