NervesMetalDetector

The Nerves Metal Detector is an application with the goal to show all Nerves Framework supported hardware, where to buy it and its availability.

Roadmap

• Product availability update functionality
• Coverage of rpilocator.com catalogue (in progress)
• Non-RPi SBC Products
• Proper design

How to contribute

Contributions that add new vendors, products and product update items (vendor-item relation) are greatly welcome.

See the CONTRIBUTING document for detailed information. Especially the section about adding the items from rpilocator.com.

Local Development

The project is a standard Phoenix Framework application.

Database

The docker-compose.yml in the root folder defines a simple Postgres Docker container.

Run docker-compose up to start the database.

Any other way of running a Postgres database works as well.

Running the server

To start the Phoenix server:

• Make the environment variables in .envrc.dist available. When using direnv, copy the file to .envrc and run direnv allow .
• Run mix setup to install and setup dependencies
• Start Phoenix endpoint with mix phx.server or inside IEx with iex -S mix phx.server

Now you can visit localhost:4000 from your browser.

Fetching/Updating Product Availabilities

Product availabilities are updated every hour via an Oban cronjob.

The updates can be manually scheduled by running the server in an iex session and scheduling the NervesMetalDetector.Jobs.ScheduleProductUpdates job.

$ iex -S mix phx.server
iex(1)> NervesMetalDetector.Jobs.ScheduleProductUpdates.new(%{}) |> Oban.insert()