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Recently I noticed that when I save a source file from my editor while having an IEx session running, the latter automatically recompiles...
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Recently, I’ve been working with Nx/Axon. Training a model can take quite a long time, so I often return to the same IEx session later.
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How is the proper way to get information about the running app from iex?
Should I trust Mix.Project info? is it always relliable or is t...
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What is the proper way to load a module from a file in to IEX?
In the python world, doing something like this pretty standard:
from ....
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We have an elixir app running in prod. I can SSH onto this box, but is it possible to connect to the app with an iex session? When I r...
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Is there a known issue with :observer with Elixir 1.15 that I’m unaware of? I’ve added :observer to :extra_applications but it gives this...
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Hey guys,
I just installed Elixir 1.10 on my Arch Linux and I am starting to learn this nice language.
I am experiencing some problems ...
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On my development VM (specs see below) - starting an elixir / erlang container takes up 2G of physical memory while running iex locally o...
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I’d like to add some custom helper functions to iex. I use .iex.exs and can define a module there with my custom functions. But I can’t...
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I get a response from a (pretty funky) API, and am trying to decode it with HTTPoison.
It fails with something like this...
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I am trying to pry some code and the request continues without entering pry(1)> prompt. I use require IEx; IEx.pry or dbg with...
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I’m writing a small CLI application using Burrito. Per its README, I set up an application with a mod entrypoint in mix.exs; the module l...
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How could I send an EOF/EOT inside an input in iex?
Say inside
iex> IO.read :all
Usually we do it by pressing ctrl+D on other shell...
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How do I configure IEx colorization, complete with syntax coloring, as shown in the examples in the Elixir Guides (Introduction — Elixir ...
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Hello my fellow elixir enthusiasts!
I want to start iex in a port then shut it down and I want to do so gracefully. Here is my attempt w...
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Generally when I want to quit an iex session I use the double control-c dance.
For unknown reasons this refused to work earlier today bu...
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iex errors when trying to output the result of an expression I type in for recent installs of erlang (errors with 26.1 and 26.1 but not 2...
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$ mix new foo
$ cd foo
$ iex -S mix
showed
Erlang/OTP 25 [erts-13.1.4] [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [ds:4:4:10] [async-threads:1] [jit...
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Hi. I’ve noticed that Windows Powershell has it’s own IEX command and you cannot access Elixir’s IEX due to the conflict. This isn’t a cr...
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When I run the Plug and I recompile I wind up having to use Ctrl C to quit iex and start again. Witht the help of rlwrap I can use the cu...
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I have an application :myapp and I am trying to add some web functionality to it from zero using Plug. However, even though I ...
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Can anyone provide please an example how to add, lets say purple color, to console logger backend?
I tried to redo the same what I’ve fo...
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Hello everybody,
Hope everyone is good!
TL;DR: I’m running a Phoenix app as a release where I didn’t defined anything about node config...
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What is the indication of async-threads when starting iex?
I couldn’t found anything on the web. I have 8 cores on my machine
and when ...
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Hi, I have been experiencing some problems using on Windows regarding iex output coloring.
Since I’ve been using CMDER as my main consol...
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iex> 75000 / 12.5
6.0e3
iex(14)> 75000 / 12.5 |> Float.to_string
"6.0e3"
It is kind of weird that Elixir...
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Iex not working in windows terminal,when i typed iex only a blank space appeared,i have correctly added the environmental variables.That ...
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I’m on Windows 10 and Elixir development is alright on Windows, but I miss only one thing. When I type a module name on Ubuntu or Mac and...
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I wanted to know if it’s possible to configure the cwd (current working directory) path of the mix.exs file (which is the ...
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Is there a way to stop the iex truncating long outputs?
I’m wanting to print about 200 lines of a list but it’s only printing about 50 l...
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I have a piece of code that gets executed on successful user signin, and everything seems to work fine, except that one of my assigned va...
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I wrote a app for my backend and run in bare-metal .
How config to use iex ( shell ) with my app ??
I want use it for add/remove ...
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I just noticed this in Iex:
iex(1)> [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
iex(2)> [7,8,9]
'\a\b\t'
iex(3)> [7]...
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