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Recompiling and reloading modules/files in iex

When you are testing code in Elixir and you've made a change to the source file you may want to reload the new code. iex provides two options of doing it:

  1. By file name: 

     iex> c "lib/myfile.ex"

  2. By module 

     iex> r MyModule

The way r works is it checks where the module is defined and then recompiles all of the code in that file as c does.

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