Sean Cribbs

In the previous installment, we displayed some dynamiccontent in our webpage that was loaded from an ets table. Even asocial network themed around The Wire is no fun if you can’t addyour favorite quotes to it. Let’s hook up a form so that we can submitto...

Last time westarted serving static files from the priv directory, supportingvalidation caching, conditional requests, and compression. But sincestatic files are pretty boring, let’s populate our application’s pagewith some dynamic content.
Dynamic content...

Last time,we got our project set up and serving some simple dynamic content. Inthis installment, we’ll show how to serve static files via Webmachineso we can discuss lots of its best features.
Serving static files
Most times you would let a web-server like Apache or nginx serve yourstatic files, but for our tutorial it’s nice to serve our contentdirectly via Webmachine. By doing so, we can demonstrate severalimportant features related to the dispatcher, content...

Webmachine is an Erlang project I’ve known and used for years,especially thanks to my experience at Basho. One of the things thatmade me proud to use it was its opinionated nature about HTTP, namely,that in most cases you don’t have to manually set status...