I put together a new post in my “literate commits” style where I go about building the simplest possible Phoenix application from the ground up, one commit at a time.
Check it out: Minimum Viable Phoenix
I’m pretty excited about this format, and I’m interested to know what people think!
Latest post from Eric over at the SmartLogic blog:
“Following up on our last post about generating an Erlang release through Docker, let’s talk about how we configure Distillery to generate the actual release. Here again I’m using the example of the scripts I use to deploy Grapevine, to give us a real example to look at.”
These are always fun ones to read! ^.^
EDIT:
No clue what a .DS_Store line is doing in your .gitignore file or what it is for? I don’t see it listed in any of my .gitignore’s that I’ve grabbed from a large variety of git projects. Should detail why it is there and what it has to do with Elixir?
DS_Store is a macOS file that contains folder information. Usually included in global gitignore files!
Ah, yeah, system-specific junk files like the macos stuff should not go in project .gitignore files, that’s like the Windows icon cache file litter too which that post left out in that case. Should set that globally by putting it in a global gitignore file, like echo .DS_Store > ~/.gitignore_global and make sure git uses it as the global gitignore via git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_global.
Hmm. I thought git respected a .gitignore in the home folder by default. I have a few things in there (TODO, .DS_Store) and don’t recall ever setting anything in the config.
Hmm, it wasn’t on any of my systems… Let me check the help file. ^.^;
core.excludesfile
In addition to .gitignore (per-directory) and .git/info/exclude , Git looks into this file for patterns of files which are not meant to be tracked. “~/” is expanded to the value of $HOME and “~user/” to the specified user’s home directory. Its default value is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/ignore is used instead. See gitignore(5).
Ooo, I’m very sure it used to not have a default, but now apparently the default is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore falling back to $HOME/.config/git/ignore. 
Love the format. Each section is a commit. You can clone the repo and go through the post using git and run the commands yourself, while reading the blog post in your terminal git history.
It would be awesome to have a similar thing that would be runnable as a test. I would embed commands with expected output. If the output doesn’t match, the test fails. Integrate it into ex_doc. No more outdated “soft” documentation, like Phoenix guides.
@petecorey published it on Elixir Blog Posts. This is a really interesting article and reminds me of a friend that started over a very simple project in which he used only Plug, but after some time he discovered that he was reinventing Phoenix, so he dropped to regular Phoenix.