Mongoid is an ODM (Object-Document-Mapper) framework for MongoDB in Ruby. Mongoid differs from other mapping frameworks in that it constrains the models into behaving in a manner appropriate for a document database. That is to say there are no relationships between documents in the underlying datastore. If a relationship is set up in the Model the child models are automatically embedded within the parent document in the database. The concept of a foreign key relationship to another Document does not exist, as that is design and thinking for a relational database, not a document database. Mongoloid does however provide all the ActiveRecord style functionality you need, with the difference that it stores all associations within the parent document.
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Mongoid is developed against Ruby 1.8.6, 1.8.7, 1.9.1
Initialize Mongoid:
Mongoid.connect_to("myapp_database_name")
Example of a simple domain model:
class Person < Mongoid::Document
fields :title
has_many :addresses
has_one :name
end
class Address < Mongoid::Document
fields \
:street,
:city,
:state,
:post_code
belongs_to :person
end
class Name < Mongoid::Document
fields \
:first_name,
:last_name
end
Create a new Document:
Person.create(:title => "Esquire")
Save a Document:
person.save
Delete a Document:
person.destroy
Update a Document:
person.update_attributes(:title => "Sir")
Search for a Document in the database:
Person.find(:all, :title => "Esquire") Person.find(:first, :title => "Esquire")
Paginate Document search results:
Person.paginate(:title => "Esquire", :page => 1, :per_page => 20)
Validations:
Mongoid supports all validations provided by Jay Fields’ Validatable gem.
For more information please see the Validatable documentation.
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