Field aliases with Mongoid and Rails

Question

It\'s common practice in MongoDB to use short key names to save space. For example, one might want to use \"fn\" instead of \"first_name\"

However in your app, you\

Answer 1

you should consider using

 field :fn, :as => :firstname

as outlined here: http://groups.google.com/group/mongoid/browse_thread/thread/ce3298d6a167bd70

this is a very good practice which is fully supported in mongoid.