Phoenix undefined function cast error - terminal

I am going along with the Programmming Phoneix book and I am getting an error
rumbl master % → iex -S mix
Erlang/OTP 20 [erts-9.3] [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [ds:8:8:10]
[async-threads:10] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false] [dtrace]
Compiling 9 files (.ex)
== Compilation error in file web/models/user.ex ==
** (CompileError) web/models/user.ex:6: undefined function cast/4
(stdlib) lists.erl:1338: :lists.foreach/2
(stdlib) erl_eval.erl:670: :erl_eval.do_apply/6
(elixir) lib/kernel/parallel_compiler.ex:198: anonymous fn/4 in
Kernel.ParallelCompiler.spawn_workers/6
rumbl master % →
This is the user.ex file it is talking about
defmodule Rumbl.User do
defstruct [:id, :name, :username, :password]
def changeset(model, params \\ :empty) do
model
|> cast(params, ~w(name username), [])
|> validate_length(:username, min: 1, max: 20)
end
end

import Ecto.Changeset in your Rumbl.User module. cast/4 is a function in Ecto.Changeset module
defmodule Rumbl.User do
#import here
import Ecto.Changeset
defstruct [:id, :name, :username, :password]
def changeset(model, params \\ :empty) do
model
|> cast(params, ~w(name username), [])
|> validate_length(:username, min: 1, max: 20)
end
end

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How to spit Ecto Migrations into partials?

I have many migration files using the same column names name, address, phone, etc.
In my migrations, I want to make a partial that calls them instead of writing it over and over:
defmodule App.Repo.Migrations.CreateUsers do
use Ecto.Migration
def change do
create table(:settings) do
add :blah, :string
App.Repo.Migrations.Common.stuff
defmodule App.Repo.Migrations.Common do
def stuff do
add :name, :string
add :address, :string
add :phone, :string
But I get an error (UndefinedFunctionError) function App.Repo.Migrations.Common.stuff/0 is undefined.stuff
What's the proper way to split migrations? In Rails this was done with require_relative
I can guess you put the file common.ex inside priv/repo/migration which is not included while compilation
for this to work you need 2 things:
move this file common.ex inside lib/, in order to be compiled and loaded.
add this line use Ecto.Migration above def stuff do, for the definition of add() to be imported.
You can define a function, just like timestamps/1 :
def timestamps(opts \\ []) when is_list(opts) do
opts = Keyword.merge(Runner.repo_config(:migration_timestamps, []), opts)
opts = Keyword.put_new(opts, :null, false)
{type, opts} = Keyword.pop(opts, :type, :naive_datetime)
{inserted_at, opts} = Keyword.pop(opts, :inserted_at, :inserted_at)
{updated_at, opts} = Keyword.pop(opts, :updated_at, :updated_at)
if inserted_at != false, do: add(inserted_at, type, opts)
if updated_at != false, do: add(updated_at, type, opts)
end

Phoenix: changeset does not take into account changes on foreign keys

I am trying to update values for a record in the console ies -S mix .
iex> video = Repo.one(from v in Video, limit: 1)
%Rumbl.Video{...}
if I change the title of the video, everything seems to be working correctly.
iex> changeset = Video.changeset(video, %{title: "some title"})
#Ecto.Changeset<action: nil, changes: %{title: "some title"},
errors: [], data: #Rumbl.Video<>, valid?: true>
But changing a foreign key seems to have no effect:
iex> changeset = Video.changeset(video, %{category_id: 3})
#Ecto.Changeset<action: nil, changes: %{},
errors: [], data: #Rumbl.Video<>, valid?: true>
What should I do to for the changes on the foreign key to be taken into accoung ?
Here is the model
defmodule Rumbl.Video do
use Rumbl.Web, :model
schema "videos" do
field :url, :string
field :title, :string
field :description, :string
belongs_to :user, Rumbl.User, foreign_key: :user_id
belongs_to :category, Rumbl.Category, foreign_key: :category_id
timestamps()
end
#required_fields ~w(url title description)
#optional_fields ~w(category_id)
#doc """
Builds a changeset based on the `struct` and `params`.
"""
def changeset(struct, params \\ %{}) do
struct
|> cast(params, #required_fields, #optional_fields)
|> validate_required([:url, :title, :description])
|> assoc_constraint(:category)
end
end
In Ecto 2.2, the fourth argument to cast is opts, not optional fields. It used to be optional fields earlier which was deprecated in v2.1 with a recommendation to use validate_required instead. This was apparently removed in v2.2.0 although I can't find it in the changelog. You should change your code to this for Ecto 2.2:
struct
|> cast(params, #required_fields ++ #optional_fields)
|> validate_required([:url, :title, :description])
or do this:
#required_fields ~w(url title description)a
#optional_fields ~w(category_id)a
and
|> cast(params, #required_fields ++ #optional_fields)
|> validate_required(#required_fields)

struct__/1 is undefined, cannot expand struct error Phoenix 1.3

I'm trying to create a contact form in a phoenix 1.3 app. I used mix phx.gen.html to create the relevant files. However, I'm getting a compilation error when trying to start the server:
== Compilation error on file lib/iotc/web/controllers/email_controller.ex ==
** (CompileError) lib/iotc/web/controllers/email_controller.ex:7: Email.__struct__/1 is undefined, cannot expand struct Email
(stdlib) lists.erl:1354: :lists.mapfoldl/3
lib/iotc/web/controllers/email_controller.ex:6: (module)
(stdlib) erl_eval.erl:670: :erl_eval.do_apply/6
Looking at some other posts with a similar issue, it could be related to the alias, but I have alias Itoc.Contact in the controller, and I don't think alias Iotc.Contact.Email would be right here.
email_controller.ex
defmodule Iotc.Web.EmailController do
use Iotc.Web, :controller
alias Iotc.Contact
def index(conn, _params) do
changeset = Email.changeset(%Email{})
emails = Contact.list_emails()
render(conn, "index.html", emails: emails, changeset: changeset)
end
...
email.ex
defmodule Iotc.Contact.Email do
use Ecto.Schema
import Ecto.Changeset
alias Iotc.Contact.Email
schema "contact_emails" do
field :email, :string
field :event, :string
field :message, :string
field :name, :string
timestamps()
end
#doc false
def changeset(%Email{} = email, attrs) do
email
|> cast(attrs, [:name, :email, :message, :event])
|> validate_required([:name, :email, :message, :event])
end
end
With respect to this
OK makes sense. I've updated it to the controller to : changeset =
Contact.Email.changeset(%Contact.Email{}) But I now get: warning:
function Iotc.Contact.Email.changeset/1 is undefined or private. Did
you mean one of: * changeset/2
You only have one function changeset/2 defined in the Email module.
But you're doing Contact.Email.changeset(%Contact.Email{}) passing only one argument. Do ``Contact.Email.changeset(%Contact.Email{})` and it should work.
The /2 part of the signature tells you the arity of the function, namely how many arguments takes.

Zito.Register. __struct__/1 is undefined cannot expand struct

i get the following error whenever i run the mix phoenix.server command. Below is my user.ex model, register_controller.ex and my repo files. Seems to have a problem with my model but i cant really figure what it is.
user.ex
defmodule Zito.User do
use Zito.Web, :model
schema "users" do
field :email, :string
field :crypted_password, :string
timestamps()
end
#doc """
Builds a changeset based on the `struct` and `params`.
"""
def changeset(struct, params \\ %{}) do
struct
|> cast(params, [:email, :crypted_password])
|> validate_required([:email, :crypted_password])
|> validate_format(:email, ~r/#/)
|> validate_length(:crypted_password, min: 8)
|> validate_length(:crypted_password, max: 16)
end
end
(code)
register_controller.ex
defmodule Zito.RegisterController do
use Zito.Web, :controller
alias Zito.Register
def create(conn, %{"register" => register_params}) do
changeset = Register.changeset(%Register{}, register_params)
case Zito.Register.create(changeset, Zito.Repo) do
{:ok, changeset} ->
conn
|> put_flash(:info, "Your account was created")
|> redirect(to: "/")
{:error, changeset} ->
conn
|> put_flash(:info, "Unable to create account")
|> render("register.html", changeset: changeset)
end
end
end
and my repo file
defmodule Zito.Repo.Migrations.CreateUser do
use Ecto.Migration
def change do
create table(:users) do
add :email, :string
add :crypted_password, :string
timestamps()
end
create unique_index(:users, [:email])
end
end

Accessing command line arguments from outside of Thor class

Pretty new to Ruby and OO. Studying the text books, and all the articles that google found on Thor.
I have Thor working to capture multiple command line arguments and options. I'd like to do the rest of my programming from outside the Cli < Thor class though, and am having trouble accessing the command line arguments from outside the Cli class.
Questions:
Q1. Can the Cli < Thor class be treated like any other ruby class, or does inheriting from Thor, or the "Cli.start" command, cripple certain functionality of the Cli class versus not using Thor? Asking because I may simply not know how to access an instance variable from outside a class that doesn't use the initialize method. Thor will not let me use the initialize method to bring in the command line variables, probably because initialize is a reserved method name in ruby.
Q2. How can I access the command line argument variables a and b from outside the Thor class?
Here's my code
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'thor'
class Cli < Thor
attr_reader :a, :b
method_option :add, :type => :string, :desc => 'add servers'
method_option :prod, :type => :string, :desc => 'production stack'
desc "tier <stack folder name> <app | web>", "creates an app or web server tier for the stack"
def tier(a,b)
#a = a
#b = b
puts a
puts b
end
end
Cli.start
arguments = Cli.new
puts "the first argument is #{arguments.a}"
Here's the result. Close (maybe). No errors, but arguments.a is nil.
$ ./create.rb tier a b
a
b
the first argument is
--
puts arguments.tier.a
threw the error:
./create.rb:11:in `tier': wrong number of arguments (0 for 2) (ArgumentError)
from ./create.rb:23:in `<main>'
The following works without Thor and using an initialize method and attr_reader, straight out of the text books. Can't figure out how to access the variables from a non-initialize method though.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
class Cli
attr_reader :a, :b
def initialize(a,b)
#a = a
#b = b
end
end
arguments = Cli.new("a","b")
puts arguments.a
outupt:
$ ./create_wo_thor.rb
a
Instantiating your Cli class doesn't make much sense; that's not how Thor is designed.
You have a few options to access internal data from outside the class. If there are only a few variables that you want access to, storing them as class variables and making them available through getters (and setters, if you need them) would work:
require 'thor'
class Cli < Thor
method_option :add, :type => :string, :desc => 'add servers'
method_option :prod, :type => :string, :desc => 'production stack'
desc "tier <stack folder name> <app | web>", "creates an app or web server tier for the stack"
def tier(a,b)
##a = a
##b = b
puts a
puts b
end
def self.get_a
##a
end
def self.get_b
##b
end
end
Cli.start
puts "the first argument is #{Cli.get_a}"
This works as you hope:
$ ./thor.rb tier a b
a
b
the first argument is a
I prefer the following, using a global Hash:
require 'thor'
$args = {}
class Cli < Thor
method_option :add, :type => :string, :desc => 'add servers'
method_option :prod, :type => :string, :desc => 'production stack'
desc "tier <stack folder name> <app | web>", "creates an app or web server tier for the stack"
def tier(a,b)
$args[:a] = a
$args[:b] = b
puts a
puts b
end
end
Cli.start
puts "the first argument is #{$args[:a]}"
Last, I'd be remiss not to point out that all the command line arguments are available in the global ARGV, anyway:
require 'thor'
class Cli < Thor
method_option :add, :type => :string, :desc => 'add servers'
method_option :prod, :type => :string, :desc => 'production stack'
desc "tier <stack folder name> <app | web>", "creates an app or web server tier for the stack"
def tier(a,b)
puts a
puts b
end
end
Cli.start
puts "The first argugment is #{ARGV[1]}"
What would be best depends on how you intend to use it. If you just want raw access to the command line arguments, ARGV is the way to go. If you want to access certain pieces after Thor has done some processing for you, one of the first two might be more helpful.
Here's my code with all three options included for accessing the command line arguments from outside the Cli < Thor class. Compliments to Darshan.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'thor'
$args = {}
class Cli < Thor
attr_reader :a, :b
method_option :add, :type => :string, :desc => 'add servers'
method_option :prod, :type => :string, :desc => 'production stack'
desc "tier <stack folder name> <app | web>", "creates an app or web server tier for the stack"
def tier(a,b)
# store a and b in a global hash
$args[:a] = a
$args[:b] = b
# store a and b in class variables
##a = a
##b = b
end
# getter methods, for access of the class variables from outside the class
def self.get_a
##a
end
def self.get_b
##b
end
end
Cli.start
# three ways now to access the command line arguments from outside the Cli < Thor class
puts "the first argument, from $args[:a], is #{$args[:a]}"
puts "the second argument, from Cli.get_b, is #{Cli.get_b}"
puts "the first argument, from ARGV[1], is #{ARGV[1]}"
Results:
$ ./create.rb tier a b
the first argument, from $args[:a], is a
the second argument, from Cli.get_b, is b
the first argument, from ARGV[1], is a

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