Installing Mongify

gem install mongify

Once installed you get a mongify command in your terminal

Usage: mongify command database.config [database_translation.rb]

Commands:
  "check" or "ck"           >> Checks connection for sql and no_sql databases [configuration_file]
  "process" or "pr"         >> Takes a translation and process it to mongodb [configuration_file, translation_file]
  "translation" or "tr"     >> Outputs a translation file from a sql connection [configuration_file]

Examples:

  mongify translation datbase.config
  mongify tr database.config
  mongify check database.config
  mongify process database.config database_translation.rb

 Common options:
    -h, --help                       Show this message
    -v, --version                    Show version

Structure

In order to Mongify your database, we'll need two things: ul li A database configuration file - Used by Mongify to locate connections to the SQL and MongoDB databases. li A translation file - Used to translate your SQL data before saving it into MongoDB.

Configuration

Before you can do anything with Mongify, you need to setup a configuration file: database.config 

sql_connection do
  adapter   "mysql"
  host      "localhost"
  username  "root"
  password  "passw0rd"
  database  "my_database"
end

mongodb_connection do
  host      "localhost"
  database  "my_database"
end

Translation

In order for Mongify to know what to do with your data, you must provide (or generate) a translation file: translation.rb 

table "users" do
  column "id", :key
  column "first_name", :string
  column "last_name", :string
  column "created_at", :datetime
  column "updated_at", :datetime
end

table "posts" do
  column "id", :key
  column "title", :string
  column "owner_id", :integer, :references => :users
  column "body", :text
  column "published_at", :datetime
  column "created_at", :datetime
  column "updated_at", :datetime
end

table "comments", :embed_in => :posts, :on => :post_id do
  column "id", :key
  column "body", :text
  column "post_id", :integer, :referneces => :posts
  column "user_id", :integer, :references => :users
  column "created_at", :datetime
  column "updated_at", :datetime
end

table "preferences", :embed_in => :users, :as => :object do
  column "id", :key
  column "user_id", :integer, :references => "users"
  column "notify_by_email", :boolean
end

table "notes", :embed_in => true, :polymorphic => 'notable' do
  column "id", :key
  column "user_id", :integer, :references => "users"
  column "notable_id", :integer
  column "notable_type", :string
  column "body", :text
  column "created_at", :datetime
  column "updated_at", :datetime
end

To see what you can do with Tables and Columns, please refer to our Documentation

Commands

Mongify has 3 commands:

Check

Checkis a simple command and all it does is check if your database.config file is correct and all connections work

mongify check datbase.config

Translation

Translation is used to auto generate a translation from your SQL database.You simple run it as:

mongify translation database.config

Or to port the output into translation.rb, you can:

mongify translation database.config > translation.rb

Process

Once you have your translation file setup the way you want it, you can tell mongify to move the data by issuing the process command

mongify process database.config translation.rb