Is there any way to open a terminal device file in erlang ? I am on Solaris and I am trying the following:: Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.6 [source] [64-bit] [async-threads:0] [kernel-poll:fa...

I am designing a neural network and am trying to determine if I should write it in such a way that each neuron is its own 'process' in Erlang, or if I should just go with C++ and run a networ...

Note that imports are generally discouraged in the language. When working on your own code, prefer alias to import. I found this statement in the documentation but further explanation is not avai...

Is there an equivalent for retrieving the name of a function just like like __MODULE__ retrieves the name of a Module in Elixir/Erlang? Example: defmodule Demo do def home_menu do module_name...

I'm quite new to Raspberry Pi and Linux/Debian, so please bear with me. I have been trying for hours now to install rabbitMQ on my Raspberry Pi 3, to no avail. I followed the steps, but in the end ...

Sometimes I get (Ecto.StaleEntryError) attempted to update a stale struct when trying to update record. I haven't found any recipe to avoid this in Ecto's docs, so what should I do to avoid this? ...

C:\rabbitmq-server-3.6.0\scripts>rabbitmq-plugins enable rabbitmq_management 'realpath' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. init terminating in...

While reading the documentation of both GenServer and Agent I wondered what are the Use Cases the Agent solves that GenServer cannot? So, when to prefer Agent over GenServer? I know that functions...

I am using RabbitMQ with Grails, and a problem cropped up this morning. When I run rabbitmqctl status it tells me: C:\Users\BuildnTest2>rabbitmqctl status Status of node 'rabbit@BUILDNTEST2-PC' ...

I am trying to make an integer into a binary: 543 = <<"543">> How can I do this without integer_to_list(list_to_binary(K)).

I'm running Kubuntu 15.04 64-bit and trying to get Erlang's 18.1 'debugger' or 'observer' to run (EDIT: from within the shell): observer:start(). debugger:start(). I get the following error: {e...

I'd like to try to start using Erlang, and there's a data feed i'd like to read that's distributed via Websockets. Right now i'm doing the same in node.js using the 'websocket-client' module, but c...

I am trying to start RabbitMQ service on my local Windows laptop but I keep getting this error: I first downloaded erlang (OTP 19.0 Windows 64-bit Binary File) from here: http://www.erlang.org/d...

I'm trying to get Erlang working on my Fedora server, specifically to run rabbitmq, but when I yum install erlang yum complains that wxGTK requires a bunch of packages. Wtf? Why is erlang trying t...

The problem I am trying to solve states Write a function map_search_pred(Map, Pred) that returns the first element {Key,Value} in the map for which Pred(Key, Value) is true. My attempt looks ...

I'm ask/answering this question because it hung me up & it's likely someone else will have the same problem. Install of RabbitMQ x64 v2.8.6 on Windows Server 2008 x64. After Erlang install u...

Getting error when installing Elixir dependencies, all Mix command are throwing same exception 23:31:44.447 [notice] Application ssl exited: exited in: :ssl_app.start(:normal, []) ** (EXIT) an exc...

Setup new project with command mix new project_name it setup everything without any error or warning message, cd to project and ran command iex -S mix it throws error lib/helloworld.ex defmodule H...

I am using RabbitMQ. For some reason the rabbitMQ service stops as soon as you start it. I saw following error in the event log: RabbitMQ: Erlang machine stopped instantly (distribution name confl...

When I'm opening erlang shell(in cmd or git bash), and try to use tab for autocomplete, it's just indenting. Can I make somehow make autocomplete working?

My Elixir app is using about 50% of the CPU, but it really should only be using <1%. I'm trying to figure out what is causing the high CPU usage and I'm having some trouble. In a remote console...

I am using a function to create a list from a float. float_to_list(0.02). It returns: "2.00000000000000000000e-002" I need it to give me a number exactly like: "0.20" If I fed it 5.23 "5....

I want to make a synchronous call to a Port in Erlang. That is, to send some input to a running OS process connected through a Port and get its output directly, not using messages. There is a port_...

What does this error mean in CouchDB logs? I see that it is looking for some "_users" database. But I don't have a database with that name. Is there anything I can do to stop these errors...

I'm slowly falling in love with Erlang, and only have one big, BIG problem. I'm a big fan of languages like Standart ML and ocaml with their strong static typechecking. is there a nice and clean ...