Cannot connect to mongodb errno:61 Connection refused

Question

I recently installed mongodb-2.6.0 with Homebrew. After successfully installed, I tried to connect using the mongo command. I am receiving the following errors

Answer 1

To solve your issue you need to follow the instructions which are then given to you by brew after you use "brew install mongodb".

To have launchd start mongodb at login:

ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/mongodb/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents

Then to load mongodb now:

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mongodb.plist

Or, if you don't want/need launchctl, you can just run:

mongod --config /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf

You may be able to just run that last command, but it didn't work for me and I needed to run the second command. To save me in the future. I just ran the first command too. Hope that helps!

EDIT Hrishi's method of using brew services mongodb start worked good for me. I think they should include this in the mongo docs.