45: Derek Prior - From Rails to Phoenix

In this episode, Adam talks to Derek Prior about building web applications in Elixir with Phoenix, and how it compares to building an application in Ruby on Rails.

Show Notes

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Links:

• thoughtbot on Elixir and Phoenix
• The Bikeshed Podcast
• Exercism.io
• Elixir, the functional programming language
• Phoenix, the Elixir web framework
• Ecto, the Phoenix database layer
• Programming Elixir book by Dave Thomas
• Programming Phoenix book by Chris McCord, Bruce Tate, and José Valim
• Phoenix is not Rails by Chris McCord
• The Bikeshed Episode 54, where Derek talks about dates and times in Elixir
• Pact, the Elixir dependency injection library by Blake Williams
• Elixir on Slack
• Elixir Sips screencasts

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A podcast for developers interested in building great software products. Every episode, Adam Wathan is joined by a guest to talk about everything from product design and user experience to unit testing and system administration.