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There was an interesting discussion yesterday on the Elixir Slack about how libraries should handle errors. This is a more thought-through and elaborate expression on my views on the matter. In the post, I’ll present an idealised version of how I think a public API for functions that may produce errors should look like. Errors vs Exceptions In most applications we can distinguish two kinds of situ

The Unix Timestamps in Elixir post is by far my most popular one. Because a lot changed in recent Elixir versions when it comes to handling of calendar types (such as dates, datetimes and times), I though it might be a good idea to update it. What should I use? Elixir standard library provides structs for all important calendrical types (Date, DateTime, NaiveDateTime and Time) and some basic funct

Lately, there were several people asking on IRC how to deal with unix timestamps in Elixir, so I decided to write a little bit more about this. UPDATE: Since this blog post was created a lot changed and getting timestamps and managing calendar types (dates, datetimes, times) got a lot easier in Elixir in general. Consider checking out the updated version of this post What should I use? Elixir’s st

As I wrote last week, this summer I’m working on bringing the power of NoSQL to Ecto. This week I’d like to share with you what I learned about Ecto adapters alongside some tips on how to implement Ecto adapters for new databases. Maybe this will be your next week-end project? What does it take? Creating adapters for Ecto is really easy. The documentation is great (as in all core projects in Elixi