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Virtual field to hold constant value and not persist

I’m trying to implement a STAC specification using Ash. As part of the spec for a STAC Item the field type must be the string Feature and...

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2025-10-01 05:40:32 UTC

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How best to write context functions for more complex cases?

TLDR; Is this a good way to writing context functions? Especially when preloads are nested, or for some other reason there is some comple...

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2024-01-11 02:38:58 UTC

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Virtual attributes mirroring Ecto's virtual fields

Question to the Ash gurus: in the same way Ecto schemas can have virtual fields (e.g. by passing the virtual: true option, so that those ...

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Adding calculated fields to Ecto Schema - virtual field or?

I’m wondering the best way to solve this particular problem: I have a schema for file uploads (think of an asset manager). The database ...

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Testing Virtual Field

Hey all, What is the best practice when testing user’s password? My user schema has a :password_digest field and :password virtual field...

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2018-11-22 17:35:11 UTC

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Best Practices: Virtual Field / select_merge

My app has leases of units. A lease has a move in and a move out date. Depending upon those dates a lease is implicitly “past”, “active”,...

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2021-04-13 01:24:10 UTC

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Repo.load does not assign virtual fields

Hello. I know this works: > Ecto.Type.load(:integer, 23) {:ok, 23} > Ecto.Type.load({:array, :integer}, [23]) {:ok, [23]} Given:...

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2018-10-19 02:45:38 UTC

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