Jean Felipe jean-felipe

Elixir installation guide

Version numbers should be the ones you want. Here I do it with the last ones available at the moment of writing.

The simplest way to install elixir is using your package manager. Sadly, at the time of writing only Fedora shows the intention to keep its packages up to date. There you can simply sudo dnf install erlang elixir and you are good to go.

Anyway, if you intend to work with several versions of erlang or elixir at the same time, or you are tied to a specific version, you will need to compile it yourself. Then asdf is your best friend.

Rails 6 + ActionCable + Stimulus example for pushing updates to the view.

This example will show how to push updates to the view for a Model instance that has changed without the user having to refresh the page.

This example focuses more on getting ActionCable working with Stimulus. If you don't already have stimulus setup in your app, here's a great write up on how to set it up: https://medium.com/better-programming/how-to-add-stimulus-js-to-a-rails-6-application-4201837785f9

Example scenario

You have a Scan model with attributes.
You have a ScanController#show action.
A user is viewing a Scan through the show.html.slim|haml|erb view template.

	// Takes a credit card string value and returns true on valid number
	function valid_credit_card(value) {
	// Accept only digits, dashes or spaces
	if (/[^0-9-\s]+/.test(value)) return false;

	// The Luhn Algorithm. It's so pretty.
	let nCheck = 0, bEven = false;
	value = value.replace(/\D/g, "");

	for (var n = value.length - 1; n >= 0; n--) {