node.js - What collection does Mongoose put things in?

Question

I want to browse the raw data stored in Mongodb by Mongoose. Where does it go? I have a Schema called Profile with several profiles stored in it, but using the Mongodb shell db.Profiles.find() and db.Profile.find() doesn't return anything.

The Schema,

var Profile = new Schema({
    username      : {type: String, index: true, required: true}
    , password      : {type: String, required: true}
    , name          : {type: String, required: true}
});

Answer 1

The default collection name when using Mongoose is the lower-cased, pluralized model name.

So if you're creating your model for the ProfileSchema as:

var ProfileModel = mongoose.model('Profile', ProfileSchema);

the collection name is profiles; so you'll find its contents as db.profiles.find() in the shell.

Note that you can provide your own collection name as the third parameter to mongoose.model if you don't like the default behavior:

var ProfileModel = mongoose.model('Profile', ProfileSchema, 'MyProfiles');

would target a collection named MyProfiles.