Tuesday, March 23, 2010
RubyJax 2010: MongoDB & Mongoid Introductory Video
Durran Jordan from Hashrocket introduces MongoDB and Mongoid, an ODM (Object-Document-Mapper) framework for MongoDB in Ruby.
We had explored MongoDB in the past but this video made us get into it and start using MongoDB/Mongoid on real projects. We'll soon be deploying a production-ready application for one of our newest clients, the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, that combines ActiveRecord and Mongoid.
Here are some of Mongoid features:
- Effortless mapping of Ruby objects to documents and embedded documents.
- Rich criteria API for document retrieval from the database.
- Chained criteria.
- Chained named scopes.
- Support for versioning of documents.
- Full callback support on documents and embedded documents.
- Compatibility for most modern Rails targeted frameworks.
- Proper master/slave distribution against the database.
- Optimized for use with extremely large datasets.
The advent of Document Oriented Databases is here. If you are a (Ruby) web developer, you should consider taking a look.
MongoDB & Mongoid - RubyJax February 2010 from Hashrocket on Vimeo.