Mote

Mote aims to be a simple, light weight MongoDB abstraction layer built on top of the Ruby driver.

Wherever possible, operations are delegated directly to the Ruby driver without much interference in order to provide the most lightweight solution as possible. The main goal of Mote is to DRY up regular activities that are run when dealing with the database.

Getting started

Create a connection to the database

Mote.db = Mongo::Connection.new.db("my_db", :pk => Mote::PkFactory)

Mote provides a custom PkFactory for use when generating IDs. The PkFactory simply overwrites the way that the key is added to the document. Currently, the Ruby driver creates a property in the document's hash named _id as a symbol. This happens to behave quite differently from the rest of the operations done by the driver where keys are stored as strings instead of keys.

Your first model

class Book < Mote::Document; end

That's it, your ready to use Mote's baseline convenience methods.

Mote follows the same convention as ActiveRecord when it comes to collections and individual documents. Meaning, a collection will be inferred as the pluralized version of the class's name.

With our model above, the collection will be called books.