Gautam Rege - Learning Mongoid

Gautam Rege is driven by his passion for programming, he co-founded Josh Software with Sethupathi Asokan in 2007. He still codes religiously and leads the marketing of the India-based Josh Software brand across the world, apart from being involved in delivering web solutions for the client partners of the organization. With more than 13 years of experience in the industry, he has handled a wide array of profiles that have helped him to develop strong analysis and project management skills, and an understanding of client partner needs for sustainable and high-standard web solutions.

He is an ardent promoter of Ruby on Rails and leads many of the brand's initiatives to promote this framework in India. He helps organize the annual RubyConf India, talks at Ruby conferences across the world, and manages local Ruby meetings. When not discussing Ruby, he loves talking about entrepreneurship and the importance of starting up young! Apart from being an active voice through his popular blog, he has authored the book Ruby and MongoDB Web Development Beginner's Guide , Packt Publishing . He truly believes that Ruby is the language of the next generation of web application development.

Before beginning his professional career in 2000, he completed his B.E. from the Pune Institute of Computer Technology (PICT). In his spare time, apart from spending time with his family, he is an athlete and loves playing cricket, basketball, and soccer when he can. He is always on the lookout to feed his hunger for adventure by going for activities such as skydiving and bungee jumping.

Writing your second book is always easier than the first because one is already tuned to write late in the night and on weekends. This book has a lot of input from practical experiences I had while working at Josh. Without the support of Sethu to free up my work so that I could find time to write this book, it may never have been completed!

My wife Vaibhavi and daughter Swara provided a lot of moral support and both were very patient even when I missed out on family time and family occasions. Thank you very much! The book reviewers and technical editors provided excellent feedback and suggestions that have helped in my work.

Simone Carletti has been working professionally with Ruby since 2006. He's very passionate about code quality and best practices.

He has been involved with free and open source software (FOSS) for more than a decade, contributing code and creating libraries in several different programming languages. The most recent projects are available in his GitHub account (weppos).

Currently, he is working as a Software Developer at DNSimplea company providing DNS hosting, domain registration, and SSL certificates. His personal website is http://www.simonecarletti.com/.

Sergio Tulentsev is an early MongoDB adopter and Mongoid fan. He has used them to build systems that handle substantial load (greater than 100 million hits per day). He often speaks about MongoDB at conferences and even patched it once or twice.

When not fending off bears in snowy Russia, he travels, tries new kinds of food, and learns new languages.

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Preface

Learning Mongoid gives beginners a good start to building a Rails application using MongoDB with Mongoid. For intermediate and expert Ruby developers, this book provides an excellent reference for using Mongoid. The book has plenty of examples with code samples and explanations that help in understanding the various features of Mongoid.

What this book covers

, What's so Awesome about Mongoid? , explains why Mongoid is one of the popular choices for Rails applications that use MongoDB. We are also introduced to Origin and Moped, which are integral parts of Mongoid.

, Mongoid Document Model , discusses the various data types that are supported by Mongoid and how they are stored. We learn about arrays, hashes, and embedded documents. We also briefly touch upon localized storage of string.