Rails + MongoDB resources

Here is a work-in-progress list of useful resources for starting out a Rails project with MongoDB and MongoMapper:

RailsTips articles about MongoMapper

• Getting A Grip on GridFS
• Why I think Mongo is to Databases what Rails was to Frameworks
• More MongoMapper Awesomeness

Getting started

• How to install MogoDB on OS X
• MongoDB and MongoMapper Railscast
• MongoDB with MongoMapper and Ruby on Rails with nice initializer example
• Rails - Getting Started from mongoDB docs
• MongoDB Data Modeling and Rails really good read on how to approach modeling of your data

MongoDB usage

• Counting and grouping
• Advanced grouping
• Map-reduce basics

Authentication

• Devise
• Devise MongoMapper Example at github

Useful additions

• Acts as tree
• ActsAsMongoRateable
• ActsAsMongoTaggable
• DelayedJob branch with non-AR backend support
• CarrierWave - replacement for Paperclip (could use nginx-gridfs for serving the files)

Testing

• Easy Testing MongoMapper models
• Machinist Mongo
• Remarkable Mongo

Open source apps using Rails and MongoMapper

• Newsmonger - “A simple social news application demonstrating MongoDB and Rails.”
• Congo CMS
• opusnow - a bugtracker

If you know any other useful articles, please point them out in the comments.

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