How to fix this error – Elixir Phoenix: ** (DBConnection.ConnectionError) tcp connect (localhost:5432): connection refused – :econnrefused

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Has been rather a while since I last blogged.  And this update is rather technical so if you’re not into databases or Elixir programming, look away.

Largely documenting a solution to a rather cryptic error I encountered setting up a PostgreSQL database on Elixir Phoenix. Hope it helps someone!

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Learning Elixir at Manchester Lambda Lounge

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Here are the slides from my recent Learn Elixir talk at Manchester Lambda Lounge, the monthly meet up for fan of functional programming languages in Manchester. This is my second talk there, the first, back in October 2016, was a show-and-tell on Assenty, the real-time Q&A web service I’ve been building at assenty.com.

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