MongoidSnappy

Allow string attributes in Mongoid to be compressed with Snappy

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'mongoid_snappy'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install mongoid_snappy

MongoDB doesn't have built in support for data compression.

See https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-164

So in meantime the solution is application level compression.

Define a field of type Mongoid::Snappy

class MyModel
  field :long_text, type: Mongoid::Snappy
end

Strings are transparently compressed and decompressed:

m = MyModel.new
m.long_text = 'a very long string here'
m.long_text # -> 'a very long string here'

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
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4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
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