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Mastering Elixir

By : André Albuquerque, Daniel Caixinha
Book Image

Mastering Elixir

By: André Albuquerque, Daniel Caixinha

Overview of this book

Running concurrent, fault-tolerant applications that scale is a very demanding responsibility. After learning the abstractions that Elixir gives us, developers are able to build such applications with inconceivable low effort. There is a big gap between playing around with Elixir and running it in production, serving live requests. This book will help you fll this gap by going into detail on several aspects of how Elixir works and showing concrete examples of how to apply the concepts learned to a fully ?edged application. In this book, you will learn how to build a rock-solid application, beginning by using Mix to create a new project. Then you will learn how the use of Erlang's OTP, along with the Elixir abstractions that run on top of it (such as GenServer and GenStage), that allow you to build applications that are easy to parallelize and distribute. You will also master supervisors (and supervision trees), and comprehend how they are the basis for building fault-tolerant applications. Then you will use Phoenix to create a web interface for your application. Upon fnishing implementation, you will learn how to take your application to the cloud, using Kubernetes to automatically deploy, scale, and manage it. Last, but not least, you will keep your peace of mind by learning how to thoroughly test and then monitor your application.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
5
Demand-Driven Processing
Index

Testing Phoenix Channels


At this point, we've covered unit and integration testing. Now, we'll explore how to create tests for the Phoenix Channels we created in the last chapter. This is not a type of testing per se, but it's still important to explore on its own, as it comes bundled with its own set of helpers.

As we've seen in the last chapter, connecting to a channel is a two-step procedure: we first connect to the socket (through the UserSocket module, in our case) to establish a connection with the server; then, after having a socket connected to the server, we use it to join the channels we're interested in. Therefore, we will have two test cases in this section: one for the UserSocket module, where we'll test that this module handles the authentication properly, and another for the UserChannel module, where we'll test that the channel reacts as expected to the events we'll create. Let's begin with the UserSocket tests:

$ cat apps/elixir_drip_web/test/elixir_drip_web/channels/
user_socket_test...