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FROM elixir:1.5.3-alpine

WORKDIR /app
ADD . /app

# Install hex & rebar
RUN mix local.hex --force && \
    mix local.rebar --force && \
    mix hex.info

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# Selecting only column values instead of the whole table
# One column
MyObject.select_map(:column_name) # > [value1, value2, ...]

# Multiple columns
MyObject.select_map([:column1, :column2]) # > [[value1, value2], [value 3, value4], ...]

# And you can have `.where` statements before
MyObject.where(something: true).select_map(:column_name) # > [value1, value2, ...]

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It's hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: "America's right to know." It seems almost cruel to ask, ingeniously, "America's right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?"

None of those things, of course. In fact, one might well suppose that the popular feeling is that Americans are a lot better off without any of that tripe.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way throughout political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

Politicians have routinely striven to speak the language of Shakespeare and Milton as ungrammaticaly as possible in order to avoid offending their audiences by appearing to have gone to school. Thus, Adlai Stevenson, who incautiously allowed intelligence and learning and wit to peep out of his speeches, found the American people