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This page describes significant changes and improvements in Mongoid 8.1. The complete list of releases is available on GitHub and in JIRA; please consult GitHub releases for detailed release notes and JIRA for the complete list of issues fixed in each release, including bug fixes.

Configuration DSL No Longer Requires an Argument to its Block

It is now possible to use Mongoid.configure without providing an argument to its block:

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Mongoid.configure do
  connect_to("mongoid_test")

  # Use config method when assigning variables
  config.preload_models = true

Note that configure will continue to support a block argument. The following is equivalent to the above:

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Mongoid.configure do |config|
  config.connect_to("mongoid_test")

  config.preload_models = true

Added Mongoid::Criteria finder methods

Mongoid 8.1 implements several finder methods on Mongoid::Criteria:

  • first!
  • last!
  • second/second!
  • third/third!
  • fourth/fourth!
  • fifth/fifth!
  • second_to_last/second_to_last!
  • third_to_last/third_to_last!

When no documents are found, methods without a bang (!) return nil, and methods with a bang (!) raise an error:

Band.none.first
# => nil

Band.none.first!
# => raise Mongoid::Errors::DocumentNotFound

Added :touch option to #save

Support for the :touch option has been added to the #save and #save! methods. When this option is false, the updated_at field on the saved document and all of it’s embedded documents will not be updated with the current time. When this option is true or unset, the updated_at field will be updated with the current time.

If the document being saved is a new document (i.e. it has not yet been persisted to the database), then the :touch option will be ignored, and the updated_at (and created_at) fields will be updated with the current time.

Added Version Based Default Configuration

Mongoid 8.1 has added the ability to set the default configurations for a specific version:

Mongoid.configure do |config|
  config.load_defaults 8.0
end

This is helpful for upgrading between versions. See the section on Version Based Default Configuration for more details on how to use this feature to make upgrading between Mongoid versions easier.

Added :present option to localized fields

The :present option was added to localized fields for removing blank values from the _translations hash:

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class Product
  include Mongoid::Document
  field :description, localize: :present
end

See the section on Localize :present Field Option for more details on how these are used.

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