April 2018
Beginner to intermediate
406 pages
9h 33m
English
A schema in Ecto needs one use statement and one import statement by default. In addition, we want to namespace the modules that we define for our new schema with the name of the app (but not the web app!) and the name of the context. We created votes as the subdirectory under the app "Vocial", so we'll create our module as Vocial.Votes.Poll. Next, we need to tell Ecto that this file will be using all of the Ecto functions and helpers that are available to us.
The schema will also be in charge of telling Ecto how to build changesets to modify data in our database, so we'll need to include that functionality via an import statement. We’ll also want to make our lives easier by including an alias for our full module ...