In my previous post [https://www.thegreatcodeadventure.com/managing-multiple-databases-in-a-single-rails-application/], we laid out a few scenarios in which two (or more!) separate Rails applications need to access the same data. Normally, shared data + lots of data === lots of expensive and slow database queries. One solution to this problem is to create… »
What? Why? It may sound crazy at first, since most of the Rails applications we tend to work with connect to just one database. But, it actually isn't that unusual to have a single app communicate with more than one database. Consider the following use cases: source [http:… »
In my previous post [https://www.thegreatcodeadventure.com/elixir-linter-building-an-otp-elixir-code-quality-engine-with-credo/] , we built an Elixir OTP application that implemented a supervisor tree to clone down repositories and check them for code quality with the help of Credo. Now, we'll build a command line interface for our application and make it… »
While learning Elixir, I've found that it's often-times similar feel to Ruby can be both a blessing and a curse. One the one hand, its semantic and eloquent style makes it feel familiar and manageable. On the other hand, being a part of the well-established Ruby… »
Elixir's List module provides us with a number of handy functions for operating on lists, including a delete function that works like this: List.delete([1, 2, 3], 1) => [2, 3] But what if we want to remove all occurrences of a particular element from our list?… »