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CRUD Operations¶
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CRUD operations are those which deal with creating, reading, updating, and deleting documents.
Key-value Pair Notation¶
Key-value pairs appear in many different contexts in the MongoDB Ruby driver, and there are some quirks of syntax with regard to how they can be notated which depend on which version of Ruby you’re using.
When constructing a document, the following syntax is acceptable and correct for Ruby version 1.9 and later:
If you’re using Ruby version 2.2 or greater, you can optionally enclose your keys in quotes.
If you need to use any MongoDB operator which begins with $
,
such as $set
, $gte
, or $near
, you must enclose it in
quotes. If you’re using Ruby version 2.2 or greater, you can notate
it as follows:
If you’re using an earlier version of Ruby, use the hashrocket symbol:
Quoted strings and hashrockets for key-value pairs will work with any version of Ruby:
Creating Documents¶
To insert documents into a collection, select a
collection on the client and call insert_one
or insert_many
.
Insert operations return a Mongo::Operation::Result
object which
gives you information about the insert itself.
On MongoDB 2.6 and later, if the insert fails, an exception is raised, because write commands are used.
On MongoDB 2.4, an exception is only raised if the insert fails and the write concern is 1 or higher.
Reading¶
The Ruby driver provides a fluent interface for queries using the find
method on the collection. Various options are available
to the find
method.
The query is lazily executed against the server only when iterating the
results - at that point the query is dispatched and a Mongo::Cursor
is
returned.
To find all documents for a given filter, call find
with the
query:
Query Options¶
To add options to a query, chain the appropriate methods after the
find
method. Note that the underlying object, the Mongo::Collection::View
,
is immutable and a new object will be returned after each method call.
The following is a full list of the available options that can be added when querying and their corresponding methods as examples.
Option | Description |
---|---|
allow_partial_results |
For use with sharded clusters. If a shard is down, allows the query to return results from the shards that are up, potentially only getting a portion of the results. |
batch_size(Integer) |
Specifies the size of each batch of documents the cursor will return on
each GETMORE operation. |
comment(String) |
Adds a comment to the query. |
hint(Hash) |
Provides the query with an index hint to use. |
limit(Integer) |
Limits the number of returned documents to the provided value. |
max_scan(Integer) |
Sets the maximum number of documents to scan if a full collection scan would be performed. |
no_cursor_timeout |
MongoDB automatically closes inactive cursors after a period of 10 minutes. Call this for cursors to remain open indefinitely on the server. |
projection(Hash) |
Specifies the fields to include or exclude from the results. |
read(Hash) |
Changes the read preference for this query only. |
show_disk_loc(Boolean) |
Tells the results to also include the location of the documents on disk. |
skip(Integer) |
Skip the provided number of documents in the results. |
snapshot |
Execute the query in snapshot mode. |
sort(Hash) |
Specifies sort criteria for the query. |
Additional Query Operations¶
count
- Get the total number of documents an operation returns.
distinct
- Filters out documents with duplicate values. Equivalent to the SQL
distinct
clause.
Tailable Cursors¶
For capped collections you may use a tailable cursor that remains open after the client exhausts the results in the initial cursor. The following code example shows how a tailable cursor might be used:
Read Preference¶
Read preference determines the candidate replica set members to which a query or command can be sent. They consist of a mode specified as a symbol, an array of hashes known as tag_sets, and two timing options: local_threshold and server_selection_timeout.
local_threshold
- Defines the upper limit in seconds of the latency window between the nearest server and suitable servers to which an operation may be sent. The default is 15 milliseconds, or 0.015 seconds.
server_selection_timeout
- Defines how long to block for server selection before throwing an exception. The default is 30,000 milliseconds, or 30 seconds.
For more information on the algorithm used to select a server, please refer to the Server Selection documentation, available on GitHub.
The read preference is set as an option on the client or passed an option when a command is run on a database.
Mode¶
There are five possible read preference modes. They are :primary
,
:secondary
, :primary_preferred
, :secondary_preferred
,
:nearest
. Please see the read preference documentation in the MongoDB Manual for an explanation of the modes and tag sets.
Tag sets¶
The tag_sets
parameter is an ordered list of tag sets used to
restrict the eligibility of servers for selection, such as for data
center awareness.
A read preference tag set (T) matches a server tag set (S) – or equivalently a server tag set (S) matches a read preference tag set (T) — if T is a subset of S.
For example, the read preference tag set { dc: 'ny', rack: 2 }
matches a secondary server with tag set { dc: 'ny', rack: 2, size: 'large' }
.
A tag set that is an empty document matches any server, because
the empty tag set is a subset of any tag set. This means the default
tag_sets
parameter [{}]
matches all servers.
Updating¶
Updating documents is possible by executing a single or
multiple update, or by using the $findAndModify
command.
update_one
update_many
replace_one
To update documents and return a document via $findAndModify
, use one of
the three provided helpers: find_one_and_delete
, find_one_and_replace
,
or find_one_and_update
. You can opt to return the document before or after
the modification occurs.
find_one_and_delete
find_one_and_replace
find_one_and_update
find_one_and_replace