Search icon CANCEL
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Phoenix Web Development

You're reading from   Phoenix Web Development Create rich web applications using functional programming techniques with Phoenix and Elixir

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787284197
Length 406 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Tools
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Brandon Richey Brandon Richey
Author Profile Icon Brandon Richey
Brandon Richey
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. A Brief Introduction to Elixir and Phoenix 2. Building Controllers, Views, and Templates FREE CHAPTER 3. Storing and Retrieving Vote Data with Ecto Pages 4. Introducing User Accounts and Sessions 5. Validations, Errors, and Tying Loose Ends 6. Live Voting with Phoenix 7. Improving Our Application and Adding Features 8. Adding Chat to Your Phoenix Application 9. Using Presence and ETS in Phoenix 10. Working with Elixir's Concurrency Model 11. Implementing OAuth in Our Application 12. Building an API and Deploying 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating our Poll schema

A schema in Ecto needs one use statement and one import statement by default. In addition, we want to namespace the modules that we define for our new schema with the name of the app (but not the web app!) and the name of the context. We created votes as the subdirectory under the app "Vocial", so we'll create our module as Vocial.Votes.Poll. Next, we need to tell Ecto that this file will be using all of the Ecto functions and helpers that are available to us.

The schema will also be in charge of telling Ecto how to build changesets to modify data in our database, so we'll need to include that functionality via an import statement. We’ll also want to make our lives easier by including an alias for our full module definition so that we can just say %Poll{} instead of %Vocial.Votes.Poll{}. So we’ll start off building our...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime