[99s-extend] Cowboy, relx, and dev mode, oh my!

[Graham Hay]

https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9069

Opened 4 years ago :( Maybe I should give VMware some money.

On 24 September 2015 at 15:57, Graham Hay <grahamrhay at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, that's how I expected it to work. I'll see if I can identify how
> vagrant is causing me problems.
>
> Didn't know about "make run", thanks :)
>
> On 24 September 2015 at 15:39, Loïc Hoguin <essen at ninenines.eu> wrote:
>
>> Wait, I'm dumb. These steps also work:
>>
>> Running the release, opening the website and seeing ohai, editing the
>> file with some extra text, reloading, seeing the extra text.
>>
>>
>> On 09/24/2015 04:35 PM, Loïc Hoguin wrote:
>>
>>> Running the release, stopping it, editing the file, running the release
>>> again works here. I suspect something related to Vagrant.
>>>
>>> Also I suggest 'make run' rather than your start.sh.
>>>
>>> On 09/23/2015 07:45 PM, Graham Hay wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was fiddling with some js, and got tired of restarting the server. I
>>>> was under the
>>>> impression that using dev_mode with relx was the solution to this
>>>> problem, but
>>>> I can't seem to get it to work. I have an example here:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/grahamrhay/cowboy_devmode
>>>>
>>>> If I look in _rel, the lib folder for my app is a symlink, as expected.
>>>> Yet when I change
>>>> the web page, the rendered page is unchanged. I've tried a hard reload,
>>>> and clearing
>>>> the cache.
>>>>
>>>> And, in case that wasn't annoying enough, even restarting the server
>>>> isn't enough!
>>>> Nor is running make again. In fact, the only way I've found of getting
>>>> it to update,
>>>> is to turn off dev mode, and build the release.
>>>>
>>>> Am I missing something really obvious? As far as I can tell from
>>>> perusing the code,
>>>> the cowboy static handler just serves the file directly from the file
>>>> system.
>>>>
>>>> (P.S. I am using vagrant, but I would expect that to cause errors rather
>>>> than this, if
>>>> the symlink wasn't working.)
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>> --
>> Loïc Hoguin
>> http://ninenines.eu
>> Author of The Erlanger Playbook,
>> A book about software development using Erlang
>>
>
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