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Using LFE with Chicago Boss

Lisp-Flavoured Erlang is a Lisp-y language for the Erlang VM, which you're welcome to use if you like both parentheses and metaprogramming. More info on the LFE project is here: http://lfe.github.io/

Setup

LFE is included with Chicago Boss. You don't need to do anything special except give your source files the extension ".lfe" instead of ".erl".

Controller API

The controller API is pretty much the same as the CB Erlang API, but note that LFE does not support the auto-routing magic where URL parameters are inferred from the controller arguments.

Example controller module:

(defmodule (myapp_cool_controller req session_id)
    (export all))

(defun index (http_method tokens)
    (tuple 'output '"Yeee-haw!"))

...then visit /cool/index for a special greeting.

Model Files

LFE is not supported in BossDB model files (src/model).

Library Files

LFE is supported for library files sitting in your project's src/lib/ directory.