Description
Elixir and Erlang/OTP versions
Elixir 1.18.3 (compiled with Erlang/OTP 27)
Operating system
Debian
Current behavior
User story:
We have an Elixir app that is deployed with the Docker file created by mix.
The users should be able to provide a more complex configuration than is possible just with loading ENVs.
One option would be to ask them to create a copy of runtime.exs and overlay it, but it would contain a lot of unrelated config that they should not modify.
In the docs for config and releases it is mentioned, "If you want to (..) any sort of external configuration, this is the appropriate place to do so." But in contradiction of this actually calling load_config inside runtime.exs is forbidden.
Suggestion:
In the Docs add some info how additional config files which are evaluated at runtime can be defined in an Elixir project. I can do the PR but would need a pointer on how to actually achieve it. Adding something like the below neither throws an error, nor has any effect.
def project do
[
app: :app_name,
elixir: "~> 1.14",
config_providers: [{Config.Reader, "additional_config.exs"}],
Expected behavior
see above