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Updating one database row in Ecto is straightforward. But figuring out how to bulk update rows using Ecto without updating one record at a time? Now that is a pain. What if there were a way to bulk update rows of data in your database using only ONE update call? Well, there is, and in this post, I'll show you how you can do it using Ecto without having to write a single line of SQL. Ecto update/2...

Elixir's IEx.pry is a great debugging tool. It allows you to stop time ("pry") in the middle of your application in order to inspect the conditions in which your app is currently running. However, if you've ever had to try and use IEx.pry while running your Elixir tests using mix test, you've probably encountered a problem. It won't actually work. You may have seen an error similar to this:...

Writing asynchronous acceptance tests in Hound for Elixir and Phoenix can be difficult, especially if you are using a JavaScript framework like React, Vue.js, or Angular. If you have ever used end-to-end testing in your web application’s test suite, you have undoubtedly come across the issue of “flapping” tests. In many of the Ruby on Rails projects that I get asked to work on, I come...