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default	A stateful key/value server in Elixir

I wanted to make a simple key-value server in Elixir - json in, json out, GET, POST, with an in-memory map. The point is to reinvent the wheel, and learn me some Elixir. My questions were: a) how do I build this without Phoenix and b) how do I persist state between requests in a functional language?

Learning new stuff is always painful, so this was frustrating at points and harder than I expected. But I want to emphasize that I did get it working, and do understand a lot more about how Elixir does things - the community posts and extensive documentation were great, and I didn't have to bug anyone on StackOverflow or IRC or anything to figure all this out.

Here's what the learning & development process sounded like from inside my head.

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=begin
PlanckJS - or: why the FUCK do you have 700+ dependencies?

Planck-scale libraries are not just microlibraries, they're even BETTER! They're so micro
they're beyond nanolibraries. They have _more boilerplate code than actual code!_ So composable.
Such Unix philosophy. Wow.

Back in my day, we called these things "functions" and put them in our code, rather than
descending into package-management hell with a broken tool like npm.

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# Your init script
#
# Atom will evaluate this file each time a new window is opened. It is run
# after packages are loaded/activated and after the previous editor state
# has been restored.
#
# An example hack to log to the console when each text editor is saved.
#
# atom.workspace.observeTextEditors (editor) ->
#   editor.onDidSave ->

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class MyController < ApplicationController
  def create
    @model = Model.new(model_params)
    
    # we have to call this here, to populate
    # errors on any other fields that might
    # be invalid
    @model.valid?

    if @model.model_attr == 'invalid' && !@model.in_state(:dont_care)

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

site 'http://community.opscode.com/api/v1'

cookbook 'sprout-rbenv',
  :github => 'pivotal-sprout/sprout-rbenv'

cookbook 'sprout-ruby',
  :github => 'pivotal-sprout/sprout-ruby'

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Fetching repository, done.

-----> Node.js app detected

       PRO TIP: Specify a node version in package.json
       See https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/nodejs-support

-----> Defaulting to latest stable node: 0.10.31
-----> Downloading and installing node
-----> Exporting config vars to environment

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var d = new Date(); 
var tz_offset = d.getTimezoneOffset(); // seconds, not ms, because Javascript
var tz_select = $('#tz-select');
var abbr = tz_select.find("option[data-offset='" + tz_offset + "']").data('abbreviation');

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namespace :find do
  desc "Find and replace"
  task :replace, :find, :replace do |t, args|
    find = args[:find]
    replace = args[:replace]
    `egrep -lRZ "#{find}" --exclude-dir='.git' --exclude-dir='db' --exclude-dir='tmp' --exclude-dir='images' --exclude-dir='fonts' --exclude-dir='vendor' . | xargs -I {} sed -i '' -e 's/#{find}/#{replace}/g' {}`
  end
end

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namespace :static do

  desc "Generate and upload static pages"
  task :generate do
    `jekyll build -s jekyll -d jekyll/_site`
    `cp -r jekyll/_site/* public/`
    config = YAML.load(File.read(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', '..', 'config', 'keys.yml')))
    config = config['production']['amazon']
    AWS.config(:access_key_id => config['key'], :secret_access_key => config['secret'])
    s3 = AWS::S3.new