using a package locally with hex.pm

Question

Is it possible to use a local mix project as a hex dependency?

With Bundler I could add a line like:

gem 'action_subscriber', :path => "../action_subscriber" 

so that I could try out using the gem before I published a new version. Is this possible with the hex dependency management tool?

Answer 1

Yes it is. In your mix.exs, you can list the dependency with the :path keyword (very similarly to what you do with gems).

def dependencies do   [{:testing_dep, path: "/Users/me/testing_dep"}] end 

You can read a list of all the supported options (e.g., pulling the dependency from GitHub or from a Git repository) in the documentation for the mix deps task.