11: New Ecto features in 3.5 with Mike Binns

Learning about some new features coming in Ecto 3.5 from Mike Binns. Mike explains Ecto.Enum, what a ParameterizedType is, the new "redact" option on fields and much more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/11

Elixir Community News

• http://blog.erlang.org/the-new-scalable-ets-ordered_set/ – Improvements in OTP 22 explained in more detail.


• https://elixir-lang.org/blog/categories.html#Cases – 2nd case study published on ElixirLang website features Nerves and farm.bot


• https://hex.pm/packages/site_encrypt – site_encrypt implements the Let’s Encrypt protocol for your Phoenix applications

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

• https://dockyard.com/


• https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto/pull/3370 – ParameterizedType & Ecto.Enum


• https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto/pull/3385 – “redact” support


• https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md – Ecto changelog showing 3.5 release changes


• Mike’s tips on contributing to an open source project


• https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hunter2 – Understanding the “hunter2” reference


• https://github.com/TheFirstAvenger/kinext – XBOX 360 Kinect with LiveView integration - what will you do with it?

Guest Information

• https://twitter.com/1stAvenger – on Twitter


• https://github.com/thefirstavenger/ – on Github


• https://dockyard.com/blog/authors/mike-binns – Mike's blog posts

Find us online

• Message the show - @ThinkingElixir


• Email the show - [email protected]


• Mark Ericksen - @brainlid


• David Bernheisel - @bernheisel


• Cade Ward - @cadebward