Rails mongoid

Rails
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I have a strange problem. Suppose I have a user model with only name
field.
I can add a field with value by creating an instance in mongodb rails
environment.

Example:

class User
include Mongoid::Document

field :name
end

Now in rails console, If you do
user = User.new
user[:name] = “xxxx”
user[:firstname] = “yyyy”
user.save

The record gets created with name and firstname fields. But i havent
declared firstname field in model.

Can anyone please help me out.

Thanks,
Aashish

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On 4 May 2011 09:18, Aashish K. [email protected] wrote:

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Colin

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On May 4, 9:18am, Aashish K. [email protected] wrote:

field :name

Can anyone please help me out.

Mongodb records don’t have a fixed schema - each document can store
arbitrary data. field :name just creates some convenient accessors for
you (and allows you to do things like say that a certain field is
required etc). See http://mongoid.org/docs/documents/dynamic.html

Fred

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Thanks a lot Fred.

Can I know yr twitter id