July 04, 2023

158: From Ruby to Elixir with Steve Bussey

57 minutes

A challenge for many people learning Elixir is the change in the mental model. Coming from OOP to Functional changes how we reason about our applications and the old way doesn't always map over cleanly. Also, Elixir is capable of doing a lot more than other languages and frameworks can and this means learning how to build a “normal” application may change. We talk with Steve Bussey about his new book “From Ruby to Elixir” that aims to help people bridge that gap. While the title says “Ruby”, we discuss how many of the concepts apply to people coming from most OOP languages. We talk about different libraries to recommend to people coming from a traditional Rails stack and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/158

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/security/advisories/GHSA-564w-97r7-c6p9 – Livebook security advisory for Windows installs

https://twitter.com/livebookdev/status/1671576191461990407 – Livebook security notice on Twitter

https://www.twitch.tv/josevalim/videos?filter=highlights&sort=time – José Valim shared where we can find past Twitch videos

https://elixirforum.com/t/elixir-v1-15-0-released/56584/6 – Workaround for Elixir 1.15.0 with issues compiling the Erlang dependency ssl_verify_fun.

https://twitter.com/ac_alejos/status/1672351346278944769 – New Decision Tree library called Mockingjay takes advantage of Nx

https://github.com/acalejos/mockingjay – Mockingjay Decision Tree library

https://twitter.com/zachsdaniel1/status/1673278949667885057 – The EEF (Erlang Ecosystem Foundation) approved the creation of a new working group.

https://erlef.org/wg/libs-and-frameworks – the Libraries and Frameworks working group page

https://twitter.com/ZachSDaniel1/status/1672248650502660098 – Ash Framework released 2.11.0-rc.0 is out

https://github.com/CargoSense/briefly – Noticed "briefly" is a library to help manage temporary files

https://twitter.com/DNAutics/status/1672828839574089728 – Isaac Yonemoto released 0.1 of his OpenAPI router library Apical

https://hexdocs.pm/apical – Apical github project

https://www.elixir-tools.dev/next-ls/ – Mitch Hanberg sharing some early progress with his Next-LS project.

https://twitter.com/royalicing/status/1671689512685301762 – Patrick Smith shared a sneak peak of a new library called Orb for compiling Elixir code to WebAssembly

https://github.com/ComponentsGuide/components_guide/tree/master/lib/components_guide/wasm – The OpenSource project where Orb code will be extracted from.

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

https://twitter.com/YOOOODAAAA/status/1663988571047354371 – Twitter post announcing Beta version of the book.

https://pragprog.com/titles/sbelixir/from-ruby-to-elixir/

https://www.supered.io/

https://pragprog.com/titles/sbsockets/real-time-phoenix/ – Previous book "Real-Time Phoenix” published in March 2020.

https://www.supered.io

https://github.com/elixir-tesla/tesla

https://github.com/wojtekmach/req

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/YOOOODAAAA – on Twitter

https://github.com/sb8244/ – on Github

http://www.stephenbussey.com/ – Blog

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