This article shows how to configure a Ruby on Rails app for a MongoDB ReplicaSet. How to set up a MongoDB ReplicaSet I described here: MongoDB ReplicaSet Tutorial. And how to configure Rails to work together with MongoDB is described here: Rails + MongoDB Quickstart Tutorial.
If you want to connect to a ReplicaSet you just have to change your configuration a little bit. This is how your mongoid.yml file should look like:
production:
database: mydb_prod
hosts:
- - mongonode1:1222
- - mongonode2:1222
- - mongonode3:1222
read: :secondary
“mongonode1”, “mongonode2” and “mongonode3” should be mapped to a real ip address, of course! Usually you do that in “/etc/hosts”.
You don’t have to define a PRIMARY! The driver will figure out which of them is the PRIMARY. I like this! You also don’t need a load balancer. Because all nodes are known by the driver. And so the driver will figure it out.
The property “read” can have 2 values: [“:secondary”, “:primary”]. “:secondary” means that read operations can also be routed to secondary nodes. “:primary” means that all read operations will be routed to the PRIMARY node.
Robert Reiz 