MongoidRetry

Overcome duplicate key errors in MongoDB by catching the exception, finding the existing document, and updating it instead. Compatible with Mongoid 2 and 3.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'mongoid_retry'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install mongoid_retry

Usage

class Fruit
  include Mongoid::Document
  include Mongoid::MongoidRetry

  field :name
  index :type, unique: true
end

Fruit.new(type: 'apple').save_and_retry

#save_and_retry takes a hash of options:

• :retries Specifies the number of times to retry before failing. Defaults to 3.
• :allow_delete If true, this will delete any conflicting documents if a duplicate key error is encountered.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request