Programming Phoenix 1.4

Using the Repository to Add Data

With our database ready, we can begin to persist our Accounts.User structs. Let’s hop into an IEx shell and create the users that we previously hardcoded in our Accounts context.

Spin up your console with iex -S mix, and insert some data:

iex> alias Rumbl.Repo
iex> alias Rumbl.Accounts.User

iex> Repo.insert(%User{
...>   name: "José", username: "josevalim"
...> })
[debug] QUERY OK db=5.0ms
INSERT INTO "users" ("name","username","inserted_at",
...
{:ok,
 %Rumbl.Accounts.User{__meta__: #Ecto.Schema.Metadata<:loaded, "users">,
  id: 1,
  inserted_at: ~N[2017-10-25 19:13:28.878179],
  name: "José",
  updated_at: ~N[2017-10-25 19:13:28.879737],
  username: "josevalim"}}

iex> Repo.insert(%User{ ...