How to access a preexisting collection with Mongoose?

Question

I have a large collection of 300 question objects in a database test. I can interact with this collection easily through MongoDB\'s interactive she

Answer 1

Here's an abstraction of Will Nathan's answer if anyone just wants an easy copy-paste add-in function:

function find (name, query, cb) {
    mongoose.connection.db.collection(name, function (err, collection) {
       collection.find(query).toArray(cb);
   });
}

simply do find(collection_name, query, callback); to be given the result.

for example, if I have a document { a : 1 } in a collection 'foo' and I want to list its properties, I do this:

find('foo', {a : 1}, function (err, docs) {
            console.dir(docs);
        });
//output: [ { _id: 4e22118fb83406f66a159da5, a: 1 } ]