Ecto models usage in phoenix

Introduction#

How to generate, edit and use ecto models in the phoenix frameworks.

Generate User model from command line

To generate json user model with username, password_hash, email_id, created_at, updated_at, type

mix phoenix.gen.json User users username:string email_id:string password_hash:string timestamps()

Migrations of ecto model

When you run mix phoenix.gen.html or mix phoenix.gen.json from command line, migrations are created in priv -> repo -> migrations in your project folder.

To run migrations type mix ecto.migrate.

To generate migrations for your project mix ecto.gen migrations <model_name>

To generate migrations for a different repository than default one run mix ecto.gen migrations <model_name> -r <repo_name>