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

[Graham Hay]

Done.

https://github.com/ninenines/cowboy/issues/897

On 30 September 2015 at 18:03, Loïc Hoguin <essen at ninenines.eu> wrote:

> 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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