Elixir Language Ecto Adding a Ecto.Repo in an elixir program
Example
This can be done in 3 steps :
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You must define an elixir module which use Ecto.Repo and register your app as an otp_app.
defmodule Repo do use Ecto.Repo, otp_app: :custom_app end -
You must also define some config for the Repo which will allow you to connect to the database. Here is an example with postgres.
config :custom_app, Repo, adapter: Ecto.Adapters.Postgres, database: "ecto_custom_dev", username: "postgres_dev", password: "postgres_dev", hostname: "localhost", # OR use a URL to connect instead url: "postgres://postgres_dev:postgres_dev@localhost/ecto_custom_dev" -
Before using Ecto in your application, you need to ensure that Ecto is started before your app is started. It can be done with registering Ecto in lib/custom_app.ex as a supervisor.
def start(_type, _args) do import Supervisor.Spec children = [ supervisor(Repo, []) ] opts = [strategy: :one_for_one, name: MyApp.Supervisor] Supervisor.start_link(children, opts) end
