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Upgrading

v0.3.1

**NOTE: The Project Structure Detector is just bookkeeping and visual now. No other features currently take advantage of the SDK setting or the marked directories. Theses Project Settings will be used for later features. **

To take advantage of the new Project Structure Detector in IntelliJ, you will want to recreate any project you previously opened as an Empty Project.

(Copied from Elixir Plugin > Features > Project > From Existing Directory in README.md)

  1. File > New > Project From Existing Sources...
  2. Select the root directory of your project.
  3. Leave the default selection, "Create project from existing sources"
  4. Click Next
  5. Project name will be filled with the basename of the root directory. Customize it if you like.
  6. Project location will be the root directory.
  7. Click Next.
  8. If you previously opened the directory in IntelliJ or another JetBrains IDE, you'll be prompted to overwrite the .idea directory. Click Yes.
  9. You'll be prompted with a list of detected Elixir project roots to add to the project. Each root contains a mix.exs. Uncheck any project roots that you don't want added.
  10. Click Next.
  11. Select a Project SDK directory by clicking Configure.
  12. The plugin will automatically find the newest version of Elixir installed. (NOTE: SDK detection only works for homebrew installs on OSX. Open an issue with information about Elixir install locations on your operating system and package manager to have SDK detection added for it.)
  13. If the automatic detection doesn't find your Elixir SDK or you want to use an older version, manually select select the directory above the bin directory containing elixir, elixirc, iex, and mix.
  14. Click Next after you select SDK name from the Project SDK list.
  15. Click Finish on the framework page. (No framework detection is implemented yet for Elixir.)
  16. Choose whether to open in a New Window or in This Window.

Alternatively, you can manually mark the directories and setup the Elixir SDK.

v0.3.0

The prior version of New > Elixir File validated that the input name was a valid path and would only allow lowercase names, so you'd be forced to set the name to foo, which would produce a foo.ex file, but foo would also be used in the file contents:

defmodule foo do

end

In v0.3.0, the validator was corrected so that it only allows Alias (with and without .), so instead of entering the name as foo, enter it as Foo. The file will still be named foo.ex, but the module name will correctly be Foo in the file contents:

defmodule Foo do
end