Hi,
My background is many years of ruby development. I was introduced to
Elixir couple of years ago and since then use it very often as it is
“go to” language for all my projects.
One main difference with ruby ecosystem for me is elixir is more
explicit. You have to define aliases, you have to import all required
functions and so on.
Although I like explicitness, I think in some cases it may slow down a
pace. As an example, often you need to check something in a database
in your console.
In order to do that with Ecto, you have do all imports, then you have
to remember all aliases for schemas and namespaces with context names.
I miss the ActiveRecord where you could write
User.last or User.find_by(email: "email").posts.
With Ecto you have to explicitly preload associations, import helper
functions and so on.
I’ve riched the point when I think about writing some wrapper/helper
which will load on console initialization and will define all aliases
in advance and automatically load associations on method calls.
I would like to know am I alone with this need and is it really an
issue. Maybe I need to have more experience with Ecto when I got used
to write all aliases/includes/preload every time I want to hack in a
console.
Thank you for any feedback on this topic.
