Playing Around with Docker, Elixir and PostgreSQL

I decided to give those technologies a go, since I worked mostly on front end and mobile dev, I thought it would be interesting to learn a bit of the backend.

First problems occurred because I work on a Windows machine, using WSL 2 to use Ubuntu.

So I had to install elixir on my ubuntu wsl environemnt.

Docker was a hard one to crack, I kept getting

“Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock: Get “http://%2Fvar%2Frun%2Fdocker.sock/v1.24/containers/json”: dial unix /var/run/docker.sock: connect: permission denied”

To solve it some dude posted that I should do:

sudo chmod 666 /var/run/docker.sock

chmod 666 would be:

User	read and write
Group	read and write
Others	read and write

Seems to have worked.

The elixir api will be a graph ql one.

The goal is to map out gym like feature such as trainings, exercises, users, etc.

First I started learning how to set up an elixir project, and set up an endpoint to call functions on.

To be continued.

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Fuck me the company blocked my access to other coding lessons.

Onwards towards node.js then.