Practical Ruby Projects with MongoDB

Alex Sharp, the Lead Developer at OptimusDev, discusses in his presentation at Ruby Midwest some practical Ruby projects for MongoDB. Things are typically easier when you see a use case and an implementation that solves the use case. That is the approach that Alex has taken in his presentation he presents four use cases:

1. Accounting Application
2. Capped Collection Logging
3. Blogging App
4. Reporting App

There are several points that Alex discusses, however, here are a few highlights:

• Instead of JOINs across separate tables you can use embedded documents.
• Embedded documents eliminate many modeling headaches
• MongoDB allows for fast writes (fire and forget)
• In-place updates
• Optimize your reads with indexes

Check it out!