Fields

As per the Mongoid Documentation, there are 16 valid field types:

• Array
• BigDecimal
• Boolean
• Date
• DateTime
• Float
• Hash
• Integer
• BSON::ObjectId
• BSON::Binary
• Range
• Regexp
• String
• Symbol
• Time
• TimeWithZone

To add a field (let’s call it name and have it be a String), add this to your model file:

field :name, type: String

To set a default value, just pass in the default option:

field :name, type: String, default: ""