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Porting Perl Package To Elixir

Ruben Amortegui discusses moving from Perl to Elixir. He was attracted to Elixir for building real-time and IoT applications. He explores the necessary tools for Elixir development, including Ecto for databases, Test::Unit for testing, and Phoenix for web development. He ported his Perl e-commerce cart plugin Dancer2::Plugin::Cart to Elixir as EcCart to get started with Elixir. EcCart is now available on Hex.pm and its code is on GitHub.

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Porting Perl Package To Elixir

Ruben Amortegui discusses moving from Perl to Elixir. He was attracted to Elixir for building real-time and IoT applications. He explores the necessary tools for Elixir development, including Ecto for databases, Test::Unit for testing, and Phoenix for web development. He ported his Perl e-commerce cart plugin Dancer2::Plugin::Cart to Elixir as EcCart to get started with Elixir. EcCart is now available on Hex.pm and its code is on GitHub.

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From Perl to

Elixir

Ruben Amortegui -
@ramortegui
http://rubenamortegui.com
https://github.com/ramortegui
Agenda

● How I meet Elixir


● Personal needs to be productive
● Case: Porting EcCart from Perl to Elixir
Meeting Elixir
● Background
– Java
– PHP + JavaScript
– PHP and JAVA (joomla and XML-RPC)
– Ruby on Rails
– Perl 5
– Meteor
Meeting Elixir
● New challenges
– IOT
– RealTime apps

● Which options do I have?


– Ruby
– JavaScript
– Perl5
– Php
– Elixir?
Elixir

● Pros ● Cons (opportunities)


– Ready to scale – No working
– Syntax like Ruby experience on
Functional
– Has a Web programming
Framework
– Lack of packages
– Battletest Virtual
Machine BEAM
– Jobs ( ? )
Trying elixir, what do I need?
● Database ● Testing ● Web
abstraction Framework

● Package ● Version
manager Manager
Trying elixir, what do I need?
● Database abstraction
– Javascript: Bookshelf.js
– Java: Hibernate
– Ruby: Active Record
– Perl: DBIx
– Elixir: Ecto
Trying elixir, what do I need?
● Testing
– Javascript: Jasmine
– Java: Junit
– Ruby: Rspec, minitest
– Perl: Test::More
– Elixir: Test::Unit
Trying elixir, what do I need?
● WebFramework
– Javascript: Express.js
– Java: Spring
– Ruby: Rails, Sinatra
– Perl: Catalyst, Dancer
– Elixir: Phoenix
Trying elixir, what do I need?
● Package manager
– Javascript: npm
– Java: maven
– Ruby: rubygems
– Perl: cpan
– Elixir: hex
Trying elixir, what do I need?
● Version Manager
– Javascript: nvm
– Java: Switchng env variables?
– Ruby: rvm
– Perl: perlbrew
– Elixir: asdf
Where to start?
● How can I do the things that I’m doing with my
current programming language?

● Dancer2::Plugin::Cart
Dancer2::Plugin::Cart
● It’s a plugin for Dancer2 apps to help the developer
to manage a e-cart and guide the checkout process
on webstores.

– Routes
– Data Structure
– Functions
– Hooks to grow and add features
– Config setup
Dancer2::Plugin::Cart
● LIVE DEMO
How I started
● Phoenix
– Easily to modify existing code
– It work’s in a different way as the frameworks that
I’ve been known.
Eg. Plug, |> , Session
● Elixir
– Elixir In Action
● Get familiar with funcitonal programming, Elixir, and OTP
concepts.
Trying Elixir
● iex ( irb on ruby, re.pl )
● Defining variables
● Pattern matching
● Control Flow
● Data Abstractions
– Maps, Structs
Implementing EcCart
● The first version:

--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/ec_cart.ex
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+defmodule EcCart do
+end
Implementing EcCart
● Define EcCartItem
● Add funciton to add Items
● Add function to calculate subtotals
● Define EcCartAdjustment
● Add EcCartAdjustments
● Add function to calculate totals
● Add server to preserve states by process id
● Add cache to manage multiple servers by id
● Add supervisor OTP
Implementing EcCart
Implementing EcCart

● Published:
https://hex.pm/packages/ec_cart
● Source Code:
https://github.com/ramortegui/ec_cart
Implementing EcCart
● LIVE DEMO
Summary
● Elixir is facinating.
– Love the approach of funcitonal programing.
● A lot of tools ready to be productive
● EcCart is avaiable on Hex.io
● I’m working to make easier the development of
webstores in elixir.
Thanks!

Q & A?

@ramortegui
http://rubenamortegui.com
https://github.com/ramortegui

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