slush-mongo/templates/monk/app/config/db.js

A slush generator for MongoDB, which can scaffold Express/Mongojs, Express/Mongoose, Express/Mongoskin and Koa/Monk apps

'use strict';
var monk = require('monk'),
	wrap = require('co-monk');

var config = {
  "db": "<%= dbName %>",  
  "host": "<%= dbHost %>",  
  "user": "<%= dbUser %>",
  "pw": "<%= dbPassword %>",
  "port": <%= dbPort %>
};

var port = (config.port.length > 0) ? ":" + config.port : '';
var login = (config.user.length > 0) ? config.user + ":" + config.pw + "@" : '';
var uristring = <% if(useHeroku){ %> process.env.MONGOLAB_URI || process.env.MONGOHQ_URL || <% } %> "mongodb://" + login + config.host + port + "/" + config.db;

var db = monk(uristring);

// validate the connection. No easy way :(
var Post = wrap(db.get('post'));
Post.find({}, function (err, post) {
	if(err){
		 console.log('ERROR connecting to: ' + uristring + '. ' + err);
	}else{
		console.log('Successfully connected to: ' + uristring);
	}
});

module.exports = db;