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Programming Elixir ≥ 1.6
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Programming Elixir ≥ 1.6

by Dave Thomas
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
412 pages
9h 3m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Transformation: Sort Data

Have a look at the original design in the following figure.

images/conveyor.png

We’re making good progress—we’ve coded all the functions of the top conveyor belt. Our next transformation is to sort the data on its created_at field, with the newest entries first. And this can just use a standard Elixir library function, sort/2. We could create a new module for this, but it would be pretty lonely. For now we’ll put the function in the CLI module and keep an eye out for opportunities to move it out if we add related functions later.

So now our CLI module contains this:

 def​ process({user, project, _count}) ...
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