Aug 10, 2019
Today we're starting on a series of posts that delves into everyone's favorite topic... DevOps 😱! Our goal will be to deploy a simple Phoenix application to AWS. We'll be using the new Elixir 1.9 release task, along with Docker, and Terraform. This will be a two or three part series; today we'll concentrate on creating a release and building a docker image. In subsequent posts we'll deploy the docker image to AWS.
May 12, 2019
A short post demonstrating how to make use of the Postgres copy command to populate table data from a CSV file.
Apr 8, 2019
As a follow-up to the Bootstrap post from a couple of weeks ago, let's see how we can go about installing Bulma with Phoenix. The process is very similar, but there are a few deviations, so I figured it was worth a short post.
Mar 11, 2019
By default database columns are case sensitive in PostgreSQL. For the most part this is fine, but there are cases where we want a column to ignore casing. In this brief post we'll look at how to set up case insensitive columns with PostgreSQL in the context of a Phoenix application.
Mar 6, 2019
It isn't the most interesting of topics, but providing paging is a common requirement when building out an application. In this post we'll see how we can implement paging in Phoenix with the scrivener_ecto package.