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Adding a Start Link

Adding a Start Link

Let's add a start link to our dynamic supervisor along with a function to take the quiz.

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Rather than starting our start_link directly, our code will use the dynamic supervisor to start the code for us.

Defining the start_link

We’ll add this code below the child_spec code in /lib/mastery/boundary/quiz_session.ex:

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  def start_link({quiz, email}) do 
    GenServer.start_link(
      __MODULE__,
      {quiz, email},
      name: via({quiz.title, email}))
  end

The start_link itself looks exactly like we’d expect. It specifies the ...