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One of the requirements of the Book Club exercise on elixirland.dev is to seed data.
I am referring to this requirement in the exercise....
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Okay, this one may get a bit in the weeds but here goes. First, while my application is a Phoenix app, this is more of an Ecto/Elixir set...
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I see some people adopt this convention when naming fields or variables where the value is a boolean. I personally see this as an antipat...
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Hi all, I am trying to learn how to write idiomatic Elixir. I decided to write an implementation of a coding challenge I was given long ...
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Hi all,
A beginner here. I have the following plug code from an example Auth0 repo:
def call(conn, _default) do
with {:ok, token} ...
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I was wondering on the best way to have a function that can return multiple errors. For example, I have something like this:
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A common pattern in Elixir is to return {:ok, something} or {:error, something_else} when a function might fail. Sometimes, however, the ...
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I have a struct representing a session request with only two fields, email and bytes. Basically the struct should either be passed around...
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I’m writing a function that does some simple checks to see if a (crypto) wallet address can be considered valid for the specific network ...
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defmodule ArrangeOpeningCombos do
def remove_illegal_third_moves_after_e4(potential_line) do
[one, w1, b1, two, w2, b2, three, w3, ...
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I see some people adopt this convention when naming fields or variables where the value is a boolean. I personally see this as an antipat...
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Hi all, I am trying to learn how to write idiomatic Elixir. I decided to write an implementation of a coding challenge I was given long ...
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One of the requirements of the Book Club exercise on elixirland.dev is to seed data.
I am referring to this requirement in the exercise....
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Okay, this one may get a bit in the weeds but here goes. First, while my application is a Phoenix app, this is more of an Ecto/Elixir set...
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How to write idiomatic Elixir for the following code in Ruby? The main difficulty here is that the immutable language cannot accumulate i...
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I have been studying the scenic code and have a question about the module naming convention.
Here’s my problem - I quickly discovered th...
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I have a struct representing a session request with only two fields, email and bytes. Basically the struct should either be passed around...
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I’m extracting many fields from a map using pattern-matching against the function parameter. Sometimes only a single field is missing fro...
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While learning Elixir I’ve been writing and rewriting some practice functions. Some of the rewriting was to ensure recursive functions ar...
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Can anyone recommend books/courses/videos that use real-world Elixir? E.g.:
Idiomatic error handling design, whether it’s {ok/error, .....
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I’ve been recently trying to “level up” my Elixir code. In Python there is the idea of code being very “Pythonic”. In Elixir…not sure w...
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Hi there! Newbie to the language looking for tips on how to write more idiomatic elixir.
The problem: Given a list of intervals (start,...
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I wrote a a function that delete the content of database. Consider following code snipped:
defmodule Seeds do
def delete_db(values) ...
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Hey all dear Elixir fans and pros,
I try to learn with wiritng the most-elixirish functional code, sometime with the help of you.
I am ...
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Note: this question is ported over from the official elixir repo, where I was informed not to post this type of question there. Apologies...
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Trying to write good elixir code.
Input:
data = %{"a" => 0, "b" => 2, "c" => 0, "evilkey" => 666}
for specific keys i ...
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I just found myself writing this:
def foo([], _), do: []
def foo(_, 0), do: []
But then I thought I could also use a guard clause with ...
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So I've started learning Elixir. I took on the Advent of Code challenges, and solved the first day. I've skimmed a few books on elixir/er...
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the path should not contains...
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