Documentation

The two document types are Document and EmbeddedDocument. They are made up of Plugins. Also built-in is a simple type system that supports all of Mongo’s types out of the box and allows you to add your own.

Presentations

• Mapping Ruby to and From Mongo (video) - MongoSF talk that served as the original information architecture of this site.
• Don’t Repeat Yourself, Repeat Others - RailsConf talk on the a lot of the internals of MongoMapper.
• Why MongoDB Is Awesome - Devnation talk that serves as a great intro to MongoDB.

Articles

• What if a key value store mated with a relational database system? - Introduction to Mongo from a long time ago.
• MongoMapper, The Rad Mongo Wrapper - MongoMapper introduction to the world.
• More MongoMapper Awesomeness - Dynamic finders, logging, dirty attributes, custom types, and time zones.
• Why I Think Mongo is to Databases What Rails was to Frameworks - A description of the things that make Mongo great and how we use them in Harmony.
• Array Keys Allow for Modeling Simplicity - Discussion on how array keys can solve trivial many to many relationships quite well.
• MongoMapper 0.7: Plugins - A quick guide to plugins.
• MongoMapper 0.7: Identity Map - A man with two watches never knows the time. Learn how to use the identity map so your objects only get loaded from the database once.
• A Nunemaker Joint - A GridFS plugin for MongoMapper. Good example of plugins and of how to work with GridFS.
• MongoMapper 0.8: Goodies Galore - Sexy query language, scopes, attr_accessible, and cache_key.