[erlang-questions] Erlang and beam-based scripting languages.

[Jon Watte]

If your main goal is to use erlang as an application server for web
requests, and you want a fast development iteration cycle, have you checked
out the "reloader" module? (I think it comes with mochiweb)
This module will re-load BEAM files as they are re-compiled, into a running
Erlang server. I find it's quite convenient for quick turn-around
development.

Yes, you still need to type "make" after you save the changes, before you
actually hit the service on the web, but you can also just bind a macro to
"save and make" :-) The benefit of this is that, if you have a syntax error,
you don't have to poke at the application through a web browser to find it;
you will be told by the compiler immediately.

I wouldn't recommend using reloader for production use, though. Also, there
are some issues with code references hanging around past the "old code"
stage -- long-lived funs are the biggest culprit.

Sincerely,

jw


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On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 4:19 AM, Max Lapshin <max.lapshin@REDACTED> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I've written a letter several times to Santa Claus to have some easy
> Rails <-> erlang integration for my needs, but he seems to be too
> busy.
>
> So, my problem is: it is not convenient for me to write all customer
> logic in erlang, because it involves process of compiling and loading
> modules.
> Also, I would be very great to share the same file between web site
> and erlang daemon.
>
> It seems, that most developed beam-based language is elixir
> (https://github.com/josevalim/elixir ), but there are some erlang
> problems, that looks like blocking for
> have convenient scripting in erlang.
>
>
> I have erlyvideo server and it has config. There is option in config:
>
> {detectors, [rewrite, akamai, livestream]}.
>
> When user requests stream, media_provider takes this list of
> detectors, goes one by one and calls:
>
> case Module:check(Host, Name, Options) of
>   ..
>
> for each atom. Now we meet the problem. When I write  Module:check,
> code_server is loading module and it can load only .beam and .app
> files.
> If I have any way to hook inside with some code that will say: Hi, I
> know how to load this module, i think it will be easier to add simple
> non-compilable scripting to my app and have something like Java world
> have:  Ruby/Python classed mixed with "native" Java classes.
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