How to query MongoDB directly from Ruby instead of using Mongoid?

Question

I am writing a migration for a Rails application that uses MongoDB and Mongoid. My migration currently uses my models that use Mongoid to query and update records, but the p

Answer 1

The short answer is Moped. This is the lower-level API that Mongoid is built upon and will be available if you already use Mongoid. The Moped API is a thin wrapper around the raw MongoDB operations. The documentation here: http://mongoid.org/en/moped/docs/driver.html should be useful.