Add first class support for MongoDB

[Marak]

People apparently enjoy using MongoDB.

We should add first-class support to Resourceful for MongoDB.

We should try to collaborate with @codebrew and his https://github.com/codebrew/resourceful-mongo project, or we should just write our own.

[pksunkara]

It would be better if we can work with @codebrew to move that resourceful-mongo.js file into our engines folder and modify it accordingly.

[ryanfitz]

I'm the author of resourceful-mongo, I stopped using mongo for all of my current projects, so I don't have much interest in keeping up with resourceful-mongo. It would be great if you guys wanted to take it over from me. I could transfer the repo over to you or at least add you as a collab. resourceful-mongo took me something like an hour to whip up without knowing anything about how resourceful worked. I'm sure you guys could write a better version in a short amount of time.

[coderarity]

+1

[Marak]

@ryanfitz - Aight sounds good. I'm curious, what are you using instead of Mongo now?

@coderarity - Do you want to take lead on this? Maybe start by adding all the tests for the mongo engine?

[ryanfitz]

@Marak Im using a combination of redis, postgres and a decent amount of dynamoDB. I also wrote a node driver for dynamo https://github.com/wantworthy/dynode

[pksunkara]

@coderarity If you are taking the lead on this, you need to make sure that all the current tests (engines-test.js, relationship-test.js) passes for the new mongo engine.

[Marak]

@coderarity - Is there a status on the mongo branch? People have been inquiring.

[Marak]

Bumped to high priority.

https://github.com/flatiron/resourceful/tree/mongodb-support looks like a good start, but it needs to be finished.

Needs to have a mongodb.js file added to https://github.com/flatiron/resourceful/tree/mongodb-support/test/engines for loading the engine in the engines-test. The existing test suite should take over from there.

[coderarity]

Just need tests to pass, I think.

[Marak]

Resource.load is required for tests to pass and it seems we are missing it:

https://github.com/flatiron/resourceful/blob/mongodb-support/lib/resourceful/engines/mongodb.js#L28

Does mongo not have a way to bulk upload data?

If not, you'll to do an async create.

[svasva]

Is there any progress on this?

[AnAppAMonth]

I'm also interested in this.

[leostera]

👍

[juliankrispel]

👍

The last commit on the mongodb engine branch has been 10 months ago, are there any plans to get this working anytime soon at all?

[Marak]

Flatiron is "mostly done" so I'd suggest trying something like https://github.com/bigcompany/resource which has full mongo support via JugglingDB

[juliankrispel]

thanks for clearing that up @Marak, you might want to reference and close #117 as well and maybe update the readme as it states mongodb support but doesn't clarify that only couchdb is integrated out of the box.

[Marak]

I haven't had admin rights to Flatiron in 10 months, so I can't close that pull request.

[indexzero]

@juliankrispel I'll bug @coderarity this week to merge it in. We've been building things with Flatiron (e.g. https://github.com/opsmezzo/composer, https://github.com/opsmezzo/quill) the last year or so, but ramping up for some long overdue maintenance this summer.

[Marak]

I'm sure it's hard to keep track, but @coderarity hasn't worked for Nodejitsu or Flatiron in months.

[juliankrispel]

@indexzero it would be quite something if it were to happen! 👍

PS: hi Charlie I just noticed that it was you, I remember talking to you and drawing you at dot.js last year :D, small world...

[m3talsmith]

👍 waiting to see what comes of mongodb support.

[coderarity]

I can confirm, as @Marak has stated, that I haven't been writing javascript for a few months since I quit working for Nodejitsu. I am no longer working on this.