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

[Loïc Hoguin]

It's not the first time I see this bug. Can you open a ticket on the 
Cowboy project so it gets documented in some kind of "gotchas" section?

On 09/30/2015 06:57 PM, Graham Hay wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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
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>         Author of The Erlanger Playbook,
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Loïc Hoguin
http://ninenines.eu
Author of The Erlanger Playbook,
A book about software development using Erlang