derek hubbard

When writing code with Elixir, I often find myself feeling like I’m writing code in Ruby. There are a number of things about the Elixir language that feel just like the Ruby language. Sigils are one of those things at first glance - and then I remember how cool it is that Elixir lets you write your own sigils. In this post, we’ll take a look at some of the built in Elixir sigils, and then wrap things up by writing our own custom sigil at the end.

Pattern matching is one of the most interesting and fundamental aspects of the Elixir programming language. While not unique to Elixir, the idea of pattern matching isn’t included in every programming language and it’s a fun feature that many developers may not have experienced yet. In this post, we will check out the basics of pattern matching, along with how pattern matching applies to functions in Elixir.

The Elixir language ships with a super-powerful build tool named Mix, which can be used to create new projects, compile projects, run tests, and handle just about anything you can throw at it.

There are no problems. There are no challenges.

That’s right. The Ruby Koans are still awesome.