#elixir-lang

is there ever an end

it's hard having a full-time job and client work and being distracted with Elixir/Phoenix

wish I could start these client projects over with Phoenix...then client work would actually be fun and exiting

:)

scrogson: don't we all

scrogson: I need your lib to use mixes with ejabberd?

anyone know of a good sentry/honeybadger style service that integrates with elixir logger? specifically for error racking

jeregrine: bugsnag is a new one that I hear a lot of good things about. they don't show actual elixir support, but they have erlang support through something called community notifiers. maybe not too hard to make an elixir notifier? https://bugsnag.com/docs/notifiers

none of them are super hard

:)

(new to me, i should say)

btriley: hoping to piggey back on someone's labour is all

will just use papertrail for now

btriley: there is a bugsnap plug project that you could take a look at for Elixir integration

chrismccord: ! thanks

are any of the ex_doc devs here?

Hi! I'm trying to pattern-match `"#{n}:" <> rest = "4:spam"` but that gives me a long error message http://pastebin.com/kx3zjidZ - could someone help me understand what I'm doing wrong?

elixir241: you can only match on the beginning of the string

So does that mean I can only capture n, or I can only capture rest?

or is it one or the other

elixir241: oh wait, that shouldnt work

I thought you were trying to grab `n`

I'm hoping to grab both

I'm trying to implement bencoding in elixir

as an intro-to-the-language project

If there's a better/more elixir-y way of doing this, I'd love to know about it :)

~~ "4:" <> rest = "4:spam"; rest

"spam"

In bencoding, the format is <length of string> ":" <contents of string>, so I can't hardcode 4

Sorry if that was a dumb question

elixir241: not dump at all :) I think you'll need to dip into the String api and split by ":" to grab the length

elixir241, ie:

~~ [n, rest] = String.split("4:spam:ham", ":", parts: 2)

["4", "spam:ham"]

~~ [n, rest] = String.split("4:spam:ham", ":", parts: 2); n

"4"

~~ [n, rest] = String.split("4:spam:ham", ":", parts: 2); rest

"spam:ham"

oh duh

thanks <3

elixir241: I think you can use binary pattern matching