Chapter 3. Writing programs using MongoDB
This chapter covers
- Introducing the MongoDB API through Ruby
- Understanding how the drivers work
- Using the BSON format and MongoDB network protocol
- Building a complete sample application
It’s time to get practical. Though there’s much to learn from experimenting with the MongoDB shell, you can see the real value of this database only after you’ve built something with it. That means jumping into programming and taking a first look at the MongoDB drivers. As mentioned before, MongoDB, Inc. provides officially supported, Apache-licensed MongoDB drivers for all of the most popular programming languages. The driver examples in the book use Ruby, but the principles we’ll illustrate are universal and easily transferable to other drivers. Throughout the book we’ll illustrate most commands with the JavaScript shell, but examples of using MongoDB from within an application will be in Ruby.