Ewebmachine 2 has now been out a little while. This version is a complete rewrite of the project that breaks backward compatibility. Ewebmachine 1 was a wrapper around basho webmachine, whereas Ewebmachine is now a full re-implementation using a new DSL and Plugs. Because it is different, I thought…
In the previous posts, we have been using the temporary Erlang Term Storage or ETS to store the data. As this is an in-memory store, any data that is stored is lost whenever the application is stopped. In this post, we will look to change this and make the data persist between application restarts…
In the last of these articles on the link shortener, I am going to discuss static assets. There are two ways of serving static assets - through a webserver like Apache (Apache Webserver) or using Webmachine. We'll add some simple static serving capability to the project. First off add the following…
In the last part of this series Using Ewebmachine to create a link shortener (part 1) we covered setting up the basic application and services. In this part, we will add in some listing functionality, that will output in a number of formats: HTML, XML, JSON. So, first things first, lets set about…
As an extension to the examples presented in my previous post: Basic templating with Elixir-Mustache, I am going to look at separating the HTML from the code. Usually this is done in the form of templates, and with Elixir and Mustache this is no different. Taking the last example of the previous…
This week I'll be looking at basic, inline templating using Mustache (Elixir-Mustache) within the context of Ewebmachine by way of an aside to the work that we have been doing on the link shortener as presented in my previous posts. Next week, I'll be looking at applying these concepts to the link…
In a slight change to the previous post, I will look in more detail at Ewebmachine. To help with this I am using the excellent tutorial on Webmachine that is in Seven Web Frameworks in Seven Weeks published by Pragmatic Programmers as a basis. I can't recommend the book highly enough. Not only does…
Thanks for showing an interest in this. This is not an exhaustive discussion on the ins and outs of setting this up and I do not profess to be an expert. I am also not an expert in Elixir, Erlang or Webmachine, so I might not be able to answer any questions or offer support. All I can say is that…
