[erlang-questions] Mnesia best practices

[Edwin Fine]

Dan,

I shamelessly use techniques that I learn from reading the code for
ejabberd. Even if to some learned Erlangistas it may not be the *ne plus
ultra* of Erlang code, to me it's got a lot of things in it to which I say,
"I didn't know you could do *that*!". Sometimes I struggle to figure out how
to do something, being fairly new to Erlang/OTP myself, and I ask, WWJD
(What Would Jabber Do?) and more often than not, there is an answer. You
could do a lot worse than taking a look at its organization and techniques.
It helps that it's a stable, real-world application that's in widespread
production.

http://www.ejabberd.im/

Of course, ejabberd is not the only interesting Erlang application out there
from which to cherry-pick idioms and techniques, it's just the first one I
really looked into deeply. There are many others that are well done or
cleverly done (and sometimes both), like RabbitMQ.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Edwin Fine

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:56 AM, <Dana.RUBINO@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi Mazen,
>
> Can you be more specific please? I have had a look at the OTP Design
> principles i.e. release handling as suggested.
>
> Although it mentions target systems and building a release (.rel which
> looks good) it doesn't specify how I might specify the working Mnesia
> instance which I also want starting?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mazen Harake [mailto:mazen@REDACTED]
> Sent: 24 September 2008 15:30
> To: RUBINO, Dana, GBM
> Cc: erlang-questions@REDACTED
> Subject: Re: [erlang-questions] Mnesia best practices
>
> Use targets systems that conform to OTP release handling and and this sort
> of things come to you for free... you don't need to start Mnesia from your
> application.
>
> /Mazen
>
> Dana.RUBINO@REDACTED wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Anyone know the prescribed way for ensuring an Mnesia DB is up and
> > running (if not then start it) when starting up an erlang application?
> >
> > I would ideally like a process which is in charge of starting Mnesia
> > and monitoring it to ensure it has not gone down?
> >
> > Should I just use a supervisor for this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dan
> >
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