Hello everyone, We are really glad to announce that Ecto 2.0.0-beta.0 has been released. The upcoming Ecto version packs many goodies: We have migrated to DBConnection, which considerably improves the performance of how Ecto manages connections to the database as a whole. Improved pool management, faster encoding/decoding, support for prepared queries and more The effective … »

Ecto v1.1 has been released. Ecto v1.1 brings improvements and bug fixes to Ecto but, more importantly, paves the way for the upcoming Ecto v2.0 release by deprecating functionality that has been said to be error prone or confusing by developers. This article will highlight both improvements and what to expect by Ecto 2.0. For … »

This blog post aims to document how to work with associations in Ecto, covering how to read, insert, update and delete associations and embeds. At the end, we give a more complex example that uses Ecto associations to build nested forms in Phoenix. This article expects basic knowledge Ecto, particularly how repositories, schema and the … »

A few months ago, I started learning Elixir by reading and doing the exercises from Dave Thomas’ book ‘Programming Elixir’. I was having a lot of fun on it, but I was missing a real project to put my hands on. At that time, José Valim was in Brazil and I had the chance of … »