Lightning talk on using and extending MongoDB's "mongo" interactive JavaScript shell. First presented at MongoDB Melbourne 2012: http://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-melbourne. This includes some basic tips & tricks through to adding plugins and other goodies. Applicable to MongoDB 2.2+, although Date.toISOString() is now a built-in in MongoDB 2.4+ due to the upgraded V8 JavaScript interpreter.

1. Stephen Steneker
stennie@10gen.com
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3. Use the TAB, Luke!!
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5. https://gist.github.com/stennie!
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6. edit functionname!
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7. ~/.mongorc.js!
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8. http://skratchdot.com/projects/mongodb-schema/!
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9. DBQuery.prototype._prettyShell = true;!
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10. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/
Global_Objects/Date/toISOString!
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11. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8749971!
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12. db.getSiblingDB(‘dbname’).collection.command!
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13. www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/dbshell+(mongo)+Reference!
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14. system.js!
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15. Many of the mongo shell commands are JS helpers .. call without ()!
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16. https://github.com/TylerBrock/mongo-hacker!
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https://github.com/TylerBrock/mongo-hacker
https://github.com/karlseguin/MongoPlus
http://skratchdot.com/projects/mongodb-schema/
http://skratchdot.com/projects/mesh/
https://gist.github.com/stennie
– https://gist.github.com/3179786
– https://gist.github.com/3144323
• Ideas? Share .. !
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