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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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Today I noticed that when defining a embeds_many the new struct has a default of [] which is confusing since:
You can have jsonb[] colu...
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Hi everyone :waving_hand:
I wanted to share something I’ve been building — NowBlind, a random chat app designed to help people discover ...
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The Problem
Currently, if I define a struct in the following way:
defmodule MyStruct do
# Both x and y will have the FIXED values unti...
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Hey everyone – after coming off of 3 years building with Ecto, I’ve been working non-stop on Typegres, a new query builder that strongly ...
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I realized I could really use something like this in my Phoenix project:
I asked Claude 4 Sonnet if a port exists - it said no, and ga...
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Found a clean solution for adding custom error messages when using Ecto.Changeset.cast/4.
The issue presented is cast/4 does not allow :...
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Hey everyone! :waving_hand:
I just wanted to recommend https://seenode.com/ for deploying Phoenix apps. I’ve been using it recently and ...
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Hi everyone :waving_hand:,
I’d like to share Metamorphic, a zk habit and self-improvement tracker I’ve been building with Phoenix LiveVi...
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PWAs use a thing called IndexedDB
I was reading the docs this morning and thought how cool it would be if there was some package built...
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I’m looking for feedback on my idea of how I can possibly build a solution to creating client side dom validations using a changeset.
Be...
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Hi everyone,
I am a visual learner. I have always wanted a visual map of how things connect before diving into the details.
I started a...
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VaultChat — local-first WhatsApp archive reconstruction with Phoenix LiveView + whisper.cpp
Hi everyone,
I want to share an early alpha ...
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Being able to build nested relations in a schemaless changeset would be helpful to deal with complex forms on Phoenix without the need to...
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Ecto currently supports some data-modifying WITH statements / CTEs for Postgres:
Options: […]
:operation - one of :all , :update_all ,...
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Hello,
I am looking to more closely understand the advantages of the Repo.transact pattern and the quoted disadvantages of Ecto.Multi.
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Has anyone attempted to use SurrealDB https://surrealdb.com GitHub - surrealdb/surrealdb: A scalable, distributed, collaborative, docume...
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I couldn’t find a good overview post of people’s experience in production with elixir. I’m also wondering if there are common adjustments...
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My beginner journey into Elixir, Phoenix and Liveview started when reading about Changelog website and how fast it was reported to be by ...
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I’ve seen this pattern used often in the Ecto documentation, Phoenix controller templates, and numerous other places. It’s not clear to m...
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I’m interested in how others work with preloads in Ecto - I suppose what I’m looking for is some vague best practices around how to treat...
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:wave: hi there! I’m the creator of Testing LiveView. Now that the course is finished, I’m thinking of creating another one.
But I’d lik...
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Hello, everyone! This should probably be a blog post, but I don’t have a blog, so here we go :smile: My thoughts and frustrations regardi...
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took me days to figure this out (with the help of you guys in Slack) so logging this down for future me. make sure you read the whole thi...
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Background: In response to the l unrelated question about TreeView in LiveView a lively yet off-topic debate about the pros and cons of u...
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By default Phoenix generators, when creating an Ecto schema, puts a schema definition there (obviously) and a changeset function. I wonde...
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Hello everyone, I’ve created an API only phoenix boilerplate. You can check on github here: https://github.com/factsfinder/pheonix_api
I...
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I spent a lot of time on CI setup for a new project last week and went through all of the project staples to get things in a good place: ...
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I have a table with a generated column (PostgreSQL: Documentation: 18: 5.4. Generated Columns).
So far I only used it inside querie...
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Curious how you store your user’s timezone information to be able to send them an email at 12PM local time for example.
Assuming I defau...
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Ecto makes a point of checking uniqueness via database constraints, not via validations. The reasoning is that if we rely on a validation...
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Hi there,
I think Ecto development should consider this recommendations:
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Hey guys. I know this is an old topic, but as I write more and more complex application with Elixir and Ecto I feel like we really need a...
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Over the last few months, Ecto’s team has been working on some breaking changes to Ecto’s newest version.
In order to explain what chang...
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I have ran upon this problem several times already when building Elixir/Phoenix/Ecto applications, and I feel like I have a solution but ...
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…databases.
Pipe operator, pattern matching, Supervisors, Flow, Phoenix channels, Live view, Releases,…
But SQL feels so “deja vu”, pas...
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See if this look interesting oranif
An ecto wrapper is also possible. Please let me know if that would be useful.
TIA
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It’s a bit of ranting.
I just hope this is constructive.
Anyway the problem:
I have a perfumes table which have a many to many relatio...
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TL;DR: Ecto has this nice feature where you can Repo.update a nested tree of changesets and Ecto figures out the appropriate SQL UPDATE a...
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I just saw the announce of Awesome-Compose, “a Github repository with application samples” using Docker Compose.
Announcement Blog:
Awe...
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Hi all Ecto supports many database except Mnesia. My question is, would be a good choice to use Mnesia instead other database with Phoeni...
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I am creating a Prolog interpreter to learn Elixir. This is not practical. It is a toy program.
https://github.com/sasagawa888/Prolog
E...
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Don’t miss What’s new in Ecto 2.0 written by José Valim and other members of Plataformatec team.
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I currently developing a rest API with elixir and plug.
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