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Daniel Berkompas - Contracts: Type Checking for Ruby

http://blog.danielberkompas.com/elixir/ruby/2015/04/01/contracts-gem.html

Christian, husband, father, and programmer. I write code for the web. April 01, 2015. Contracts: Type Checking for Ruby. Like many Rubyists who read popular coding news, I recently came across the Contracts. Gem It caught my eye because it implements some of the features I like in Elixir. Type Annotations in Elixir. Both Ruby and Elixir are duck-typed languages. However, Elixir (and its parent, Erlang) allow for static type analysis through annotations. In Elixir, they look like this:. All together, your.

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Daniel Berkompas - Number Helpers For Elixir

http://blog.danielberkompas.com/elixir/2015/06/09/number-helpers-for-elixir.html

Christian, husband, father, and programmer. I write code for the web. June 09, 2015. Number Helpers For Elixir. Since I started working on a Phoenix. App, I was frustrated by the lack of number conversion helpers in Elixir/Erlang. I didn’t want to have to rewrite. Every time I want to use it. So, I created Number. It’s basically a shallow clone of NumberHelper from ActionView in Rails. Now, Elixir users can have. 1,234,567,890.50". 1,234,567,890.51". 1,234,567,890.506". 1,234,567,890.50)".

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Daniel Berkompas - Run Dialyzer on Elixir on Travis CI

http://blog.danielberkompas.com/elixir/2015/04/03/run-dialyzer-on-elixir-on-travis.html

Christian, husband, father, and programmer. I write code for the web. April 03, 2015. Run Dialyzer on Elixir on Travis CI. In my last post. I talked about Elixir’s typespec annotations and Erlang’s static analysis tool, Dialyzer. All that talk was great and all, but how do you actually. Dialyzer on Elixir projects? In particular, how do you run Dialyzer on an Elixir project on Travis CI? In today’s blog post, I’ll show you how. Yes, the PLT has to be generated. Because the paths in the PLT are. Wget -O $...

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Daniel Berkompas - Rate Limiting a Phoenix API

http://blog.danielberkompas.com/elixir/2015/06/16/rate-limiting-a-phoenix-api.html

Christian, husband, father, and programmer. I write code for the web. June 16, 2015. Rate Limiting a Phoenix API. In my spare time, I’ve been working on a little Phoenix. Project that involves a JSON API. Developers frequently neglect rate limiting when they build an API, assuming they are even aware that it is a best practice. It’s true that in many cases rate limiting isn’t worth the effort, but when it comes to authentication, it definitely is. For example, the recent high-profile iCloud. This plug do...

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Daniel Berkompas - Build Dialyzer PLTs on Travis CI

http://blog.danielberkompas.com/elixir/2015/04/08/generate-dialyzer-plts-on-travis.html

Christian, husband, father, and programmer. I write code for the web. April 08, 2015. Build Dialyzer PLTs on Travis CI. In a previous post. I wrote about how to easily get a prebuilt PLT for your Elixir builds on Travis. But what if that doesn’t work for you? What if you have special requirements that my prebuilt PLTs. You can fork my Travis PLT generator. You’ll just need an Amazon S3 bucket to store the resulting PLT files. Uses the Travis Artifacts. Script to upload the resulting file(s) to Amazon S3.

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Daniel Berkompas - ExTwiml

http://blog.danielberkompas.com/elixir/twilio/2015/03/11/ex-twiml.html

Christian, husband, father, and programmer. I write code for the web. March 11, 2015. To handle phone call routing. Twilio interacts with regular HTTP endpoints on your server to control calls and SMS messages, through a form of XML they call. I’ve been toying recently ideas on how to bring next-generation Erlang (Elixir) and next-generation telephony (Twilio) together. Toward that end, I made a little library this week to make generating TwiML from Elixir easy. It looks like this:. 27 Sep 2016 ».

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Daniel Berkompas - Fixtures for Ecto

http://blog.danielberkompas.com/elixir/2015/07/16/fixtures-for-ecto.html

Christian, husband, father, and programmer. I write code for the web. July 16, 2015. When you test an Elixir. App that uses Ecto. You will find yourself needing a way to insert test data into the database. There are many different approaches to doing this, and I thought I’d cover a few, and then describe what I think the best approach is for Elixir. While you could probably hook into. To insert your data before every test, I don’t think the Rails approach should be imitated here, for the following reasons.

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Daniel Berkompas - Stream Paginated APIs in Elixir

http://blog.danielberkompas.com/elixir/twilio/2015/03/28/stream-paginated-apis-in-elixir.html

Christian, husband, father, and programmer. I write code for the web. March 28, 2015. Stream Paginated APIs in Elixir. This article was recently featured in Elixir Radar. Since it was written, I’ve found a simpler way to implement this kind of Stream. I’ll be writing an updated tutorial in the future, but if you’re interested, you should also check out the current state of ExTwilio.ResultStream. This past week, as I worked on my new ExTwilio. API library for Twilio. This isn’t ideal for two reasons:.

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Daniel Berkompas - Telephonist: State Machines for Twilio

http://blog.danielberkompas.com/elixir/2015/04/23/telephonist-on-github.html

Christian, husband, father, and programmer. I write code for the web. April 23, 2015. Telephonist: State Machines for Twilio. After a couple months of work, I’ve finally got the library I’ve been working toward for Twilio, and I’m calling it Telephonist. You can read all about it over on Github. But here’s a taste:. Say any error, if present. For English, press 1". Para español, presione 2". Proceeding in English.". Procediendo en español.". Remain on the current state. Which will render some nice TwiML:.