// import async to make control flow simplier var async = require('async'); // import the rest of the normal stuff var mongoose = require('../../lib'); require('./person.js')(); var Person = mongoose.model('Person'); // define some dummy data var data = [ { name: 'bill', age: 25, birthday: new Date().setFullYear((new Date().getFullYear() - 25)), gender: 'Male', likes: ['movies', 'games', 'dogs'] }, { name: 'mary', age: 30, birthday: new Date().setFullYear((new Date().getFullYear() - 30)), gender: 'Female', likes: ['movies', 'birds', 'cats'] }, { name: 'bob', age: 21, birthday: new Date().setFullYear((new Date().getFullYear() - 21)), gender: 'Male', likes: ['tv', 'games', 'rabbits'] }, { name: 'lilly', age: 26, birthday: new Date().setFullYear((new Date().getFullYear() - 26)), gender: 'Female', likes: ['books', 'cats', 'dogs'] }, { name: 'alucard', age: 1000, birthday: new Date().setFullYear((new Date().getFullYear() - 1000)), gender: 'Male', likes: ['glasses', 'wine', 'the night'] } ]; mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/persons', function(err) { if (err) throw err; // create all of the dummy people async.each(data, function(item, cb) { Person.create(item, cb); }, function(err) { if (err) { // handle error } // lean queries return just plain javascript objects, not // MongooseDocuments. This makes them good for high performance read // situations // when using .lean() the default is true, but you can explicitly set the // value by passing in a boolean value. IE. .lean(false) var q = Person.find({age: {$lt: 1000}}).sort('age').limit(2).lean(); q.exec(function(err, results) { if (err) throw err; console.log('Are the results MongooseDocuments?: %s', results[0] instanceof mongoose.Document); console.log(results); cleanup(); }); }); }); function cleanup() { Person.remove(function() { mongoose.disconnect(); }); }