Documentation for Cortex.

Features

Cortex runs along side your elixir application.

Reload

Once added to your dependencies, it will startup automatically when you run iex -S mix.

  $ iex -S mix

A file-watcher will keep an eye on any changes made in your app’s lib and test directories, recompiling the relevant files as changes are made.

Compile Failures

Changes to a file that result in a failed compile are pretty annoying to deal with. Cortex will present compiler errors (with the file and line number!) until a clean compile is again possible.

Test Runner

When your app is run in the :test env, Cortex will act as a test runner.

  $ MIX_ENV=test iex -S mix

Any change to a file in lib will then run tests for the corresponding file in test, and any change to a test file will re-run that file’s tests.