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by jetti 3112 days ago
I really enjoy this site. I signed up last week to help me learn Erlang and am using it to brush up on my Elixir. One thing that stinks is the inconsistencies between the languages. For instance, Erlang uses rebar3 to run the tests "rebar3 eunit" whereas Elixir makes you use the "elixir xx.exs" command, meaning you have to point to the test file. It isn't that bad except a lot of the test files have really long names. That being said, it is a minor gripe I have with the site and I have otherwise enjoyed it.
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Try `mix test`, assuming you have a mix project.
That's what I'm used to but it doesn't come with a mix project, which is frustrating. It is just the ex file with the code and the exs with the test. If I have time, maybe I'll do others a solid and try changing the tests to use mix (if that's even possible as an outsider)
> if that's even possible as an outsider

It's all open source. Check out https://github.com/exercism/elixir. I've made some minor contributions in the Rust track and found the maintainers very pleasant to work with.

Awesome, thanks! I'll start trying to help.