Gazerbeam

A toy Phoenix application for randomizing user points.

Made with ❤️ by Connor Lay

Requirements

• Docker
• Docker Compose
• Elixir
• Curl (optional)

Setup & Development

1. Clone this repository

git clone git@github.com:connorlay/rando.git

2. Setup the development environment

mix setup

3. Start the Phoenix server

mix phx.server

4. (Optional) Run the test suite

mix test

Usage

1. Query the server for the initial state

curl 'localhost:4000'

{
  "users": [],
  "queried_at": nil
}

2. Wait for the server to refresh (every minute, watch the debug logs)

3. Query the server for the new state

curl 'localhost:4000'

{
  "users": [
    {
      "id": 1,
      "points": 1
    },
    {
      "id": 2,
      "points": 2
    }
  ],
  "queried_at": "2021-02-28T04:29:49.918864"
}

4. Wait for the server to refresh again

5. Query the server for the new state

curl 'localhost:4000'

{
  "users": [
    {
      "id": 5,
      "points": 5
    },
    {
      "id": 6,
      "points": 6
    }
  ],
  "queried_at": "2021-02-28T04:30:02.053116"
}

Mix Tasks

• mix setup: bootstraps the project
• mix phx.server: starts the Phoenix server
• mix ecto.migrate: runs Ecto migrations
• mix ecto.reset: resets Ecto
• mix test: runs ExUnit tests
• mix docker_compose up: starts Docker Compose
• mix docker_compose down: stop Docker Compose
• mix docker_compose drop: resets Docker Compose