/mongodb-crystal

Library for use of MongoDB driver

Primary LanguageCrystalMIT LicenseMIT

mongodb-crystal

This repository is a fork of datanoise/mongo.cr to keep the Mongo db connection library up-to-date

This library provides binding for MongoDB C Driver. The goal is to provide a driver to access MongoDB.

Status

Beta

Requirements

  • Crystal language version 0.27.2 and higher.
  • libmongoc version 1.1.0
  • libbson verion 1.1.0

On Mac OSX use homebrew to install the required libraries:

$ brew install mongo-c

On Linux you need to install libmongoc-1.1-0 and libbson-1.1-0 from your package manager or from source:

http://mongoc.org/libmongoc/current/installing.html

On Linux/Ubuntu

  sudo apt install libmongoc-dev libmongoc-1.0-0 libmongoclient-dev

Installation

Add this to your application's shard.yml:

mongo:
  github: kimvex/mongodb-crystal
  branch: master

Usage

require "mongo"

client = Mongo::Client.new "mongodb://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<db_name>"
db = client["db_name"]

collection = db["collection_name"]
collection.insert({ "name" => "James Bond", "age" => 37 })

collection.find({ "age" => { "$gt" => 30 } }) do |doc|
  puts typeof(doc)    # => BSON
  puts doc
end

License

MIT clause - see LICENSE for more details.