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Learning Mongoid

By : Gautam Rege
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Learning Mongoid

By: Gautam Rege

Overview of this book

Mongoid helps you to leverage the power of schema-less and efficient document-based design, dynamic queries, and atomic modifier operations. Mongoid eases the work of Ruby developers while they are working on complex frameworks. Starting with why and how you should use Mongoid, this book covers the various components of Mongoid. It then delves deeper into the detail of queries and relations, and you will learn some tips and tricks on improving performance. With this book, you will be able to build robust and large-scale web applications with Mongoid and Rails. Starting with the basics, this book introduces you to components such as moped and origin, and how information is managed, learn about the various datatypes, embedded documents, arrays, and hashes. You will learn how a document is stored and manipulated with callbacks, validations, and even atomic updates. This book will then show you the querying mechanism in detail, right from simple to complex queries, and even explains eager loading, lazy evaluation, and chaining of queries. Finally, this book will explain the importance of performance tuning and how to use the right indexes. It also explains MapReduce and the Aggregation Framework.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Learning Mongoid
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Versioning


Often, the need arises to maintain different versions of a document. The Versioning module has been removed from Mongoid 4.0 and put into a separate gem. So, to enable Versioning, we need to include the mongoid-versioning gem in our Gemfile.

We can turn on Versioning by simply including it in our class, as shown in the following code snippet:

class Contact
  include Mongoid::Document
  include Mongoid::Versioning
  ...
end

Using Versioning is simple enough, we don't really have to do anything, as shown in the following code snippet:

irb> b = Book.new(title: "Legend of Ross")
 => #<Book _id: 528a920b47617552c7010000, version: 1, t(title): "Legend of Ross", price: nil, page_count: nil, published_date: nil, is_best_seller: false, awards: [], isbn: nil, status: nil, reserved: nil, reserved_on: nil, reserved_by: nil, reserved_count: nil, currency: nil, author_id: nil> 

irb> b.save
 => true 

irb> b.versions
 => [] 

irb> b.price = 99.99
 => 99.99 

irb&gt...