Ash Framework

Welcome! Here you will find everything you need to know to get started with and use Ash. This documentation is best viewed on hexdocs.

Dive In

• What is Ash?
• Get Started
• See the roadmap

About the Documentation

Tutorials walk you through a series of steps to accomplish a goal. These are learning-oriented, and are a great place for beginners to start.

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Topics provide a high level overview of a specific concept or feature. These are understanding-oriented, and are perfect for discovering design patterns, features, and tools related to a given topic.

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How-to guides are goal-oriented recipes for accomplishing specific tasks. These are also good to browse to get an idea of how Ash works and what is possible with it.

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Reference documentation is produced automatically from our source code. It comes in the form of module documentation and DSL documentation. This documentation is information-oriented. Use the sidebar and the search bar to find relevant reference information.

Tutorials

• Get Started

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Topics

About Ash

• What is Ash?
• Our Design Principles
• Contributing to Ash
• Alternatives

Resources

• Domains
• Attributes
• Relationships
• Calculations
• Aggregates
• Code Interfaces
• Identities
• Validations
• Changes
• Preparations
• Embedded Resources
• Notifiers

Actions

• Actions
• Read Actions
• Create Actions
• Update Actions
• Destroy Actions
• Generic Actions
• Manual Actions

Security

• Actors & Authorization
• Sensitive Data
• Policies

Development

• Project Structure
• Generators
• Testing
• Development Utilities
• Upgrading to 3.0
• Error Handling

Advanced

• Monitoring
• Multitenancy
• Reactor
• Timeouts
• Writing Extensions

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How-to

• Test Resources
• Authorize Access to Resources
• Encrypt Attributes
• Prevent Concurrent Writes
• Wrap External APIs
• Define Polymorphic Relationships

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Reference

• Glossary
• Expressions
• Ash.Resource DSL
• Ash.Domain DSL
• Ash.Reactor DSL
• Ash.Notifier.PubSub DSL
• Ash.Policy.Authorizer DSL
• Ash.DataLayer.Ets DSL
• Ash.DataLayer.Mnesia DSL
• For other reference documentation, see the sidebar & search bar

Packages

The Ash ecosystem consists of numerous packages, all of which have their own documentation. If you can't find something in this documentation, don't forget to search in any potentially relevant package.

Data Layers

• AshPostgres | PostgreSQL data layer
• AshSqlite | SQLite data layer
• AshCsv | CSV data layer
• AshCubdb | CubDB data layer

API Extensions

• AshJsonApi | JSON:API builder
• AshGraphql | GraphQL builder

Web

• AshPhoenix | Phoenix integrations
• AshAuthentication | Authenticate users with password, OAuth, and more
• AshAuthenticationPhoenix | Integrations for AshAuthentication and Phoenix

Finance

• AshMoney | A money data type for Ash
• AshDoubleEntry | A double entry system backed by Ash Resources

Resource Utilities

• AshOban | Background jobs and scheduled jobs for Ash, backed by Oban
• AshArchival | Archive resources instead of deleting them
• AshStateMachine | Create state machines for resources
• AshPaperTrail | Keep a history of changes to resources
• AshCloak | Encrypt attributes of a resource

Admin & Monitoring

• AshAdmin | A push-button admin interface
• AshAppsignal | Monitor your Ash resources with AppSignal

Testing

• Smokestack | Declarative test factories for Ash resources