The MongoDB NoSQL Database Blog

In light of last week’s EBS issues, we wanted to make sure MongoDB users on EBS are configured to be as robust as possible. A basic setup would consist of a 3 node replica set. The nodes would be roughly laid out like this: * A: us-east-1a priority 1 * B: us-east-1b priority 1 * C: us-west-1a priority 0 

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Listen to Jared Rosoff’s June 2 webinar “VMware Cloud Foundry with MongoDB”.
Read about getting started with Cloud Foundry, MongoDB, and Node.js.

Last week, VMware launched Cloud Foundry: an open-source platform as a service. It’s pretty radical in that not only can you run your apps on infrastructure operated by VMware, you can also download Cloud Foundry itself and run it on your own machines!

But what’s most awesome about Cloud Foundry is that it supports MongoDB right out of the box! In today’s post, we’re going to walk through the creation of a Rails application using MongoDB and Cloud Foundry.

Here’s what we’re going to need to do:

1. Create a new rails project (skipping Active Record)
2. Add the dependencies for MongoMapper
3. Build a simple app that interacts with the database
4. Set up our credentials so we can talk to Cloud Foundry’s MongoDB
5. Push our application to CloudFoundry

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