From c94967561884ba2cab1ed7f1ff63f82f1177e8ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ILYA Khlopotov <ilya@spawngrid.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:03:49 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Adding helper to reload elixir modules while in iex.

---
 lib/reload.ex | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 lib/reload.ex

diff --git a/lib/reload.ex b/lib/reload.ex
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9ed8e543
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/reload.ex
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+defmodule Reload do
+  defmacro __using__(_) do
+    quote do 
+      import Reload
+    end
+  end
+
+  @doc """
+  This function simplifies experimenting in elixir shell. 
+  Typical usage scenario is like follows:
+    iex(1)> use Reload
+    []
+    iex(2)> reload [My.Awesome.Elixir.Module]
+    [{:module,My.Awesome.Elixir.Module}]
+  """
+  def reload(modules) when is_list(modules) do
+    lc module inlist modules, do: reload(module)
+  end
+  def reload(module) do
+    :code.delete(module)
+    :code.purge(module)
+    :code.load_file(module)
+  end
+end
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