CardGameAlpha

Have fun in a low-stakes party game where ethical design considerations are lurking at the end.

This system is currently running at https://card-game-alpha.gigalixirapp.com/ on Gigalixir's free tier of hosting.

Development

Local Dev in Docker

docker compose up

Run the above and you should be able to access your local dev server at http://localhost:4000.

Elixir operations

Use ./scripts/mix.sh to run mix commands via the Phoenix Docker container. For example:

❯ ./scripts/mix.sh phx -v
+ docker compose run phoenix mix phx -v
[+] Running 1/0
 ⠿ Container card-game-alpha-db-1  Running                                                                                                                  0.0s
Phoenix v1.6.14

Use ./scripts/iex.sh to run IEx (Elixir's interactive shell/REPL), including to run the server within the shell via ./scripts/iex.sh -S mix phx.server.

Operations

Gigalixir Initial setup

Currently running on Dane's free tier Gigalixir account. Free setup was performed according to the Gigalixir free tier instructions.

API Key

cp docker/gigalixir/.netrc.template docker/gigalixir/.netrc and replace the password values with Dane's API key.

Git Remote

Add the Gigalixir remote git repository with the helper script that executes via a Docker container:

./scripts/gigalixir.sh git:remote card-game-alpha

Confirm Gigalixir

Run the following ./scripts/gigalixir.sh ps to get the current status of the cloud system. It should look something like this:

{
  "cloud": "gcp",
  "pods": [
    {
      "lastState": {},
      "name": "card-game-alpha-fdc78d7b5-8lflt",
      "sha": "f6e5857323f8b2afa1fd5d1607024803f354b8c2",
      "status": "Healthy",
      "version": "1"
    }
  ],
  "region": "v2018-us-central1",
  "replicas_desired": 1,
  "replicas_running": 1,
  "size": 0.3,
  "stack": "gigalixir-20",
  "unique_name": "card-game-alpha"
}

Gigalixir Deploy

git push gigalixir

Push committed changes on main to Gigalixir for deployment to https://card-game-alpha.gigalixirapp.com/. Watch the build information relayed after pushing to the gigalixir remote. After a successful push, you can use ./scripts/gigalixir.sh ps to see the status of the system.

Standard Phoenix Instructions

To start your Phoenix server:

• Install dependencies with mix deps.get
• Create and migrate your database with mix ecto.setup
• Start Phoenix endpoint with mix phx.server or inside IEx with iex -S mix phx.server

Now you can visit localhost:4000 from your browser.

Ready to run in production? Please check our deployment guides.

Learn more

• Official website: https://www.phoenixframework.org/
• Guides: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/overview.html
• Docs: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix
• Forum: https://elixirforum.com/c/phoenix-forum
• Source: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix