Ecto Server

This simple table creates an application that can use a database and Ecto. It is intended to be used to create resource-servers in an application where each resource runs in its own application.

You use it in combination with the mix gen mix task, which you will need to install.

New Project Template

    mix gen ecto_server «name» [ --into «path» ]

Install

This template is installed using the template.install mix task. Projects are generated from it using the mix gen task.

So, before using templates for the first time, you need to install these two tasks:

$ mix archive.install mix_templates

$ mix archive.install mix_generator

Then you can install this template using

$ mix template.install gen_template_ecto_server

Use

To create a basic project, with no supervision and no application, run:

$ mix gen project «project_name»

«project_name» is both the name of the subdirectory that will hold the project and the name that will be given to the application. This affects entries in mix.exs as well as the names of the main file in lib/ and the skeleton test in test/. The application module name will be the camelcase version of «name».

By default the subdirectory will be created under your current directory; you can change this with the --into option:

$ mix gen project «project_name» --into some/other/dir

Then...

  1. Update config/{dev,test,prod}.exs with your database credentials.

  2. mix deps.get

  3. mix ecto.gen.migration is needed

  4. Update the schema in lib/«project»/table.ex

  5. Write your API in lib/«project».ex