Ah it looks like this is the case for standalone apps, but it's not the case for sub-apps generated inside an umbrella project. That is, if I change the config in one of my sub-apps then recompilation will not happen and running `mix test` will not reflect changes to the sub-app's configs. I'm guessing that the entire umbrella project shares the same build files and the umbrella project only recompiles based on changes in the top-level configs (even though the umbrella app seems to be reading the sub-app's configs when it does compile)
On Wednesday, October 12, 2016 at 11:07:14 AM UTC-4, Eric Meadows-Jönsson wrote: > > Mix does automatically recompile the project if a config file in config/ > changes, it does not recompile dependencies if that's what you are > referring to. > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 4:37 PM, <jbo...@wistia.com <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I feel like a common idiom in Elixir is to define environment-specific >> variables using module attributes so that each environment's changes can be >> compiled directly (instead of being called dynamically). The most obvious >> place to define these module attributes is in the respective config >> directory. Right now if you compile the source with a given module >> attribute you need to blow away the _build directory and call mix again to >> recompile. I think it would be nice if mix could look at the timestamp of >> the respective config file and recompile if needed. Alternatively, it would >> be helpful if mix would warn if the config file has changed and a recompile >> is needed to use the latest source (as there aren't any indicators that mix >> didn't pick up the changes in the config file) >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "elixir-lang-core" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to elixir-lang-co...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/e382bc20-e178-4e7d-a039-b63f41a60e6f%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/e382bc20-e178-4e7d-a039-b63f41a60e6f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Eric Meadows-Jönsson > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/34d6b5b9-f82d-4cf4-948d-7d904e1d061d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
