Mongoose not working

Question

This is my first time writing an MVC application in Node / Express / Mongoose, so I can really take some help. My .find () command just doesn't find anything !: (

The structure is that I have a folder / application in the root. / app contains / models (circuits), / controllers and / views in it. And I have app.js outside at the root.

Somewhere in app.js:

// all necessary config/setup stuff.. var mongoose = require('mongoose'); mongoose.connect(config.db); var app = express(); require('./config/routes')(app) 

In the routes.js file:

 var skills = require('../app/controllers/skills'); app.get('/', skills.showall); 

My skills.js controller contains:

 var Skill = require('../models/skill'); exports.showall = function(req, res) { Skill.find({}, function(err, docs){ if (!err) { res.render('index', {title: 'Skilldom', skills: docs}); } else { throw err; } }); } 

Finally, my skill.js model contains:

 var mongoose = require('mongoose'); //Skill schema definition var skillSchema = new mongoose.Schema({ name: String, length: String, }); var Skill = mongoose.model('Skill', skillSchema); module.exports = Skill; 

My index view displays, so I see the contents from my index.jade template, but for some reason the find command in the model does not get anything. I can confirm that my database (in MongoHQ) has real data.

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Change Skill.js for this

 var mongoose = require('mongoose'); mongoose.set('debug', true); //Skill schema definition var skillSchema = new mongoose.Schema({ name: String, length: String, }); var Skill = mongoose.model('Skill', skillSchema); module.exports = Skill; 

After that, you can see on the console if mongoose is fulfilling your requests.

Answer 2

I was in the same situation as you describe, and it turned out that I did not understand the magic of the names of the mongoose collection, in your code it will try to load the “skills”, and if this is not what he called in your mongo, nothing will be returned . It should really throw a "such a collection" error instead of imho.