Get the association with Ecto

In the schema of my post model I have this line:

belongs_to :developer

So a post is associated with a developer. When I have a post struct and try to access the developer I might see this:

> Tilex.Repo.get(Tilex.Post, 42).developer
#Ecto.Association.NotLoaded<association :developer is not loaded>

Getting the developer is now a two step process:

1. Construct a query based on the association
2. Use that query to acquire the struct

To construct a query based on the association we can use the Ecto.assoc/2 function:

query = Ecto.assoc(post, :developer)

Then this query is executed with the Repo.one function:

developer = Tilex.Repo.one(query)

There ya go!