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Currently starting a greenfield project on elixir/phoenix on the backend and react native on the frontend. To an existing MySQL database.

• tonyarkles 9y ago
  I was quite happy to discover how easily you can use Ecto to integrate with an existing database. I had to override a few things (e.g. the primary key isn't called "id") but it really worked quite smoothly.
  • raarts 9y ago
    Note that ecto now has a :source option on schema fields which allows you to map a third party db into your own field naming scheme. Very useful.
    • tonyarkles 9y ago
      Ooooooooooooh! That's killer! I was quite annoyed by the ugly legacy table's column names polluting the new codebase. I'm looking around for this and I'm not sure that I've found the right information here. Does this apply on a per-field basis?
      • raarts 9y ago
        It has not been merged yet, but several people are using it in production. Here's the PR: https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto/pull/1998 https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto/pull/1998