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Is there any way to handle task termination gracefully?
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I have a mix task that does some stuff, and in the end it created a shell command that I want to run. The command can be something that w...
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I have a mix app, and the following snippet in runtime.exs:
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Every freshly generated Phoenix project sports a seeds file priv/repo/seeds.exs and an accompanying mix alias ecto.setup to apply those s...
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I have an app with the following structure:
mix.exs
lib
|_my_app.ex
|_mix/tasks/my_mix_task.ex
The file lib/my_app.ex defines a mod...
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How to execute custom task in mix releases step?
In mix.exs:
releases: [
myapp: [
overwrite: true,
in...
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Hi,
I have write severals tasks for my project.
The live in /lib/mix/tasks and are working.
What I am looking for is a mix command (or...
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Ruby on Rails has a rails db:prepare command. It migrates the database, if it exists, else it creates it, migrates it (or loads the schem...
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I have a number of different notifications, each identified by an id (example “ticket_closed”).
This ID can later be used to select the ...
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In my mix.exs file, if I try to create an alias with a hex mix task, for example hex.audit or hex.outdated, I get an error saying the tas...
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In the examples for using mix phx.gen.html (and gen.schema) the schema usually has only one or two fields, e.g. from the docs:
mix phx.g...
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On Elixir 1.15, calling Mix.Task.run("app.config") prevents calling other modules from my tool.
The tool is installed globally with mix ...
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Myriam2002
hey! I am new to this community :) I am having trouble with versions and dependencies ...
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I’m using a custom mix task to download a binary dependency we have. I also wish to use that binary dependency as part of a pre-compile ...
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I have a Mix.Task I am writing. This is a generic Task runner task, where what it does depends entirely on the project configuration. As ...
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I’m trying to run stuff with a mix task, and I cannot start the application. But I can add the @requirements ["app.config"] bit. ...
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I want to run a specific migration file but I want it to keep its pending status on next call of ecto_migrate.
Please, is quiet the righ...
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I have a custom mix task that I want to use like mix foo.bar 123 where 123 is a command-line argument. How do I get that? I’m striking ...
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I have an umbrella project that has lots of Phoenix apps, background workers, etc. Releases work great for deployment when you only want ...
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Hello everyone,
I wrote a Mix.Task that’s supposed to be run in a specific environment (:test) and nowhere else.
The task uses depende...
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Hello all! I’m in the process of writing an application with a couple moving parts, but unit testing it is making me question everything....
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So I am using this library mix-test.watch from @lpil which I really like.
Usually I just run mix test.watch and I let the pro...
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I’m wanting to start a new Elixir/Phoenix application and wanted to confirm my understanding of how I should execute the mix tasks in ord...
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I’ve used Logger.metadata before (along the lines of this post), but I’m having some trouble making it work from within a Mix task.
Assu...
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I need to select a local SQLite database outside my Phoenix project.
So I set some configuration options based on enviroment variab...
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How can I pass command line arguments with a mix release?
Once an elixir application is built using mix release.init followed by MIX_EN...
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Suppose, we provide the github link in the mix file. If the github repository is updated, how do I update the same in my application?
I ...
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I am writing a new (sub)task for the hex client, which I have some trouble testing.
The task has some output, using which I need to make...
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I am trying out the script from dashbits new blogpost https://dashbit.co/blog/rewriting-imports-to-aliases-with-compilation-tracers ...
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I understand that the @moduledoc text is what gets shown when you type in mix help your.task:
https://hexdocs.pm/mix/Mix.Task.html
Is t...
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Is there a way to make a mix task available without compiling my (umbrella) project first?
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