Playing With Fire

In the previous posts, we have been using the temporary Erlang Term Storage or ETS to store the data. As this is an in-memory store, any data that is stored is lost whenever the application is stopped.

In this post, we will look to change this and make the data persist between application restarts. To do this we will be using Disc-backed Erlang Term Storage - DETS. This writes the data to a specified file on the disc. For this application using DETS is fine as the data requirements are very small. Should this site take off, then I would recommend using Mnesia.

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In the last of these articles on the link shortener, I am going to discuss static assets.

There are two ways of serving static assets - through a webserver like Apache (Apache Webserver) or using Webmachine.

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As an extension to the examples presented in my previous post: Basic templating with Elixir-Mustache, I am going to look at separating the HTML from the code.

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This week I’ll be looking at basic, inline templating using Mustache (Elixir-Mustache) within the context of Ewebmachine by way of an aside to the work that we have been doing on the link shortener as presented in my previous posts.

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