Gigalixir lets us start a remote shell, similar to iex --remsh. The command is: gigalixir ps:remote_console -a my-app Does anyone know if there is a way to make this shell use my project’s .iex.exs. I want this because my .iex.exs contains lots of nice aliases. I get very tired of typing alias MyA…

Perhaps you can try adding the .iex.exs file as an overlay to get it included in the release. mix release — Mix v1.20.2

Afaik releases don’t work with .iex.exs, but I’m not 100% sure about that.

I noticed than when building the release locally and connecting to it, it works: myapp$ cat .iex.exs IO.puts "it works" # terminal 1 myapp$ _build/dev/rel/myapp/bin/myapp start # terminal 2 myapp$ _build/dev/rel/myapp/bin/myapp remote it works However, if I start the release from another directo…

Aha, that’s my problem. I was doing it with a monorepo where the .iex.exs was in a subdirectory. Thanks!

Sounds like one could create a release step bundling a local .iex.exs like config/releases.exs and editing remote_console, so it automatically loads from there.

What do you mean by “editing remote_console”?

Modifying this part in the created binary you call with bin/myapp remote, so it automatically loads the .iex.exs from wherever it is stored. https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/master/lib/mix/lib/mix/tasks/release.init.ex#L198-L205

OK so I moved from doing Mix releases to doing Elixir releases with clustering and I discovered that the .iex.exs simply is nowhere on the deployed instance: connect to instance: gigalixir ps:remote_console search for .iex.exs: System.cmd("find", ["/", "-name", ".iex.exs"]) returns: {"", 0} …

This is the solution! I just copied my project’s .iex.exs to rel/overlays/.iex.exs and re-deployed and YATA! it worked! Thanks @jesse

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Using project's .iex.exs with gigalixir ps:remote_console

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slouchpie September 24, 2020, 7:01pm 12

I have no idea how to do this with a gigalixir release.