[erlang-questions] Debugging apps with dependencies

[Juan Jose Comellas]

BTW, I use a variant of what you showed that also starts dependencies
recursively. I normally create a module with the name of the project and
export the following functions to start it. That's what I use while testing.

-define(APP, ?MODULE).

%% @doc Start the application and all its dependencies.
-spec start() -> ok.
start() ->
    start_deps(?APP),
    application:start(?APP).

-spec start_deps(App :: atom()) -> ok.
start_deps(App) ->
    application:load(App),
    {ok, Deps} = application:get_key(App, applications),
    lists:foreach(fun start_deps/1, Deps),
    start_app(App).

-spec start_app(App :: atom()) -> ok.
start_app(App) ->
    case application:start(App) of
        {error, {already_started, _}} -> ok;
        ok                            -> ok
    end.


Juanjo


On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Bob Ippolito <bob@REDACTED> wrote:

> I haven't discovered a great workflow for developing with releases either,
> but you can start dependencies in a slightly cleaner way by looking at the
> app file:
>
> This would go in some module with the same name as the application, and
> you would call it with "erl ... -s modname"
>
> -export([start/0]).
>
> start() -> start(?MODULE).
>
> start(App) ->
>     application:load(App),
>     {ok, Deps} = application:get_key(App, applications),
>     lists:foreach(fun start_app/1, Deps),
>     application:start(App).
>
> start_app(App) ->
>     case application:start(App) of
>         {error, {already_started, _}} -> ok;
>         ok -> ok
>     end.
>
>
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