MongoDB Support Scripts

These scripts are for supporting dev on MongoDB.

Main scripts:

• setup-mongo-versions - used for downloading various MongoDB versions.
• mongopath - used for generating the MONGOPATH environment variable from your downloaded versions
• start-mongodb - start a specific mongodb
• stop-mongodb - stop a running mongodb

Call these scripts from the root folder (the parent folder of this repo).

Assumptions

These scripts make a couple of assumptions about the folder structure:

 Root Folder
 |
 +- bin
 |    (this repo - can actually be called anything)
 +- mongodb
 |    (storage for downloaded mongodb binaries)
 +- var
      (storage for the databases)

Setup

Copy script-config.example to script-config and uncomment the correct DISTRO_PREFIX for your os (or add the correct one as needed from here - you want the part before the MongoDB version number.

After that, run the setup-mongo-versions script to download the latest versions of the currently support set.

To start a specific mongo version, first create a config for it using the create-config script, then start it using the start-mongodb script:

LOCAL_MONGO_VER=4.1.1 ./bin/create-config
LOCAL_MONGO_VER=4.1.1 ./bin/start-mongodb

If the start script complains of issues in the config, or you want a custom configuration, look in the var/$version/mongodb.conf file for the config.

MONGOPATH

The MongoDB perl driver has a harness that uses MONGOPATH for finding the various mongodb installs for custom setups. After downloading the required versions using setup-mongo-versions then source the mongopath script, and then you can use the harness to run tests:

source ./bin/mongopath
cd mongo-perl-driver
./devel/bin/harness.pl devel/config/mongod-3.6.yml -- prove -lr t