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If your application is going to run on different devices, it's going to need to render to different ViewPorts, based on the device size. You can deal with this in two ways: with javascript rules, or CSS media styles. If you've been using a MVC or MVVM library, such as Angular or Ember (or Blaze, for...

To get all of this to work, you'll probably need offline support, which means caching application data and user data. meteor add appcache meteor add grounddb

Mobile devices generally don't have keyboards, so you'll need to add some haptic controllers to your application. The two popular packages that people seem to be using is FastClick and Hammer. Installation is easy. meteor add fastclick meteor add hammer:hammer FastClick requires nearly no confi...

Make sure your development workstation and iPhone are connected to the same WiFi network. Tethering, hotspots, and other ad-hoc networking won't work. Run sudo meteor run ios-device Deploy to your device!

You'll need to separate out your application layer from your database layer, and that means specifying the MONGO_URL. Which means running your app through the bundle command, uncompressing it, setting environment variables, and then launching the project as a node app. Here's how... #make sure you...

Then go into the mongo shell and initiate the replica set, like so: mongo > rs.initiate() PRIMARY> rs.add("mongo-a") PRIMARY> rs.add("mongo-b") PRIMARY> rs.add("mongo-c") PRIMARY> rs.setReadPref('secondaryPreferred')

The replica set will need an oplog user to access the database. mongo PRIMARY> use admin PRIMARY> db.addUser({user:"oplogger",pwd:"YOUR_PASSWORD",roles:[],otherDBRoles:{local:["read"]}}); PRIMARY> show users

Your upstart script will need to be modified to use multiple IP addresses of the replica set. start on started mountall stop on shutdown respawn respawn limit 99 5 script # our example assumes you're using a replica set and/or oplog integreation export MONGO_URL='mongodb://mongo-a...

Oplog Tailing on Sharded Mongo

There's two great utilities for black-box analysis of databases. First is variety.js, which will give you a high-level overview. The second is schema.js, which will let you dig into the collections for more detail on the individual fields. When inheriting a production Mongo database, these two util...

Mongo supports database-to-database copying, which is useful if you have large databases on a staging database that you want to copy into a local development instance. // run mongod so we can create a staging database // note that this is a separate instance from the meteor mongo and minimongo ins...

Preallocation. Mongo sets aside disk-space in empty containers, so when the time comes to write something to disk, it doesn't have to shuffle bits out of the way first. It does so by a doubling algorithm, always doubling the amount of disk space preallocated until it reaches 2GB; and then each preal...

Did you know about the --url flag? Very handy. meteor mongo --url YOURSITE.meteor.com

They're not easily accessible. If you run the 'meteor bundle' command, you can generate a tar.gz file, and then run your app manually. Doing that, you should be able to access the mongo logs... probably in the .meteor/db directory. If you really need to access mongodb log files, set up a regular mo...

Gotta rotate those log files, or they'll eventually eat up all of your disk space. Start with some research... mongodb-log-file-growth rotate-log-files Log files can be viewed with the following command... ls /var/log/mongodb/ But to set up log-file rotation, you'll need to do the following.....

With the power of regex comes great responsibility.... db.posts.find({'text': /.*foo.*|.*bar.*/i})

db.posts.find().forEach(function(doc){ if(doc.foo === 'bar'){ db.posts.update({_id: doc._id}, {$set:{'foo':'squee'}}, false, true); } });

db.posts.find().forEach(function(doc){ db.accounts.update({_id: doc._id}, {$set: {'_id': doc._id.str }}, false, true); });

var newvalue = ""; db.posts.find().forEach(function(doc){ if(doc.foo){ newvalue = '"' + doc.foo + '"'; db.accounts.update({_id: doc._id}, {$set: {'doc.foo': newvalue}}); } });

var newvalue = null; db.posts.find().forEach(function(doc){ if(doc.foo){ newvalue = '"' + doc.foo + '"'; db.accounts.update({_id: doc._id}, {$set: {'doc.foo': newvalue}}); } });