Recap: September 5, 2017 Meetup

Thanks to all who came out for Tuesday’s meetup! If you couldn’t make it, look for recordings soon on our Youtube channel, youtube.com/indyelixirorg.

Thanks as always to our sponsors who made tonight possible. And congrats to Eric and Mack, winners of Manning Publications’ excellent Elixir books Elixir In Action and The Little Elixir and OTP Guidebook.

The Talks

Eric Oestrich gave an introduction to GenServer, a common building-block of OTP applications. He also delved into Elixir releases with distillery and showed an impressive demo of hot code swapping.

• The slides
• ex_venture, Eric’s multi-user dungeon (MUD) project
• GenServer Docs

Benjamin Falk taught us all a few things about unit testing in Elixir (not to mention how to score bowling 🎳).

• The ExUnit docs
• A post from José on ElixirForum about the decision not ot allow nesting describe blocks

Our next event will be on Tuesday, November 7, 2017 We’re looking for speakers—please let me know if you’re interested!