Sails.js controller not inserting into Mongo database - mongodb

Question

I've been all over SO and Sailsjs.org trying to figure out what's going wrong, and to no avail. Just trying to learn the basics of SailsJS. I have a UserController, whose create() method gets called when a POST request is sent to /user.
create: function (req, res) {
var params = req.params.all();
User.create({
name: params.FirstName + ' ' + params.LastName,
email: params.Email,
password: params.Password,
jobTitle: params.JobTitle
}).exec(function createCB(err,created)
{
created.save(function(err)
{
// No error . . . still nothing in db
});
return res.json({name: created.name, jobTitle: created.jobTitle, email: created.email, password: created.password});
});
}
No errors here. All the request params are coming in fine and going back to the client without trouble. But nothing is actually being written to the database.
In development.js:
connections: {
mongo: {
adapter: 'sails-mongo',
host: 'localhost',
port: 27017,
// user: 'username',
// password: 'password',
database: 'sails_test'
}
},
models: {
connection: 'mongo'
}
I've tried this with the above both there in development.js, as well as separately in connections.js and models.js, respectively. No difference.
In User.js:
attributes: {
FirstName : { type: 'string' },
LastName : { type: 'string' },
Email : { type: 'string' },
Password : { type: 'string' },
JobTitle : { type: 'string' }
}
My front end request:
$.ajax({
method: 'post',
url: '/user',
data: {
FirstName: 'Yo',
LastName: 'Momma',
Email: 'yourmom#yourdadshouse.com',
Password: 'YouWish123',
JobTitle: 'Home Maker Extraordinaire'
},
success: function (sailsResponse)
{
$('#result').html(sailsResponse).fadeIn();
},
error: function()
{
console.log('error');
}
});
Again, none of this is producing an explicit error. There is just nothing being inserted into the database. Or if there is, I don't know how to find it. I've confirmed the existence of this db in the mongo shell, thusly:
show dbs
My db, sails_test shows up in the list. And I've confirmed that there isn't anything in it like so:
db.sails_test.find()
I would very much appreciate some guidance here :)
Update:
Turns out the data is being written just fine. I'm just unable to query the database from the command line. I confirmed this by first creating a sample user, and then using Waterline's findOne() method:
User.findOne({FirstName: params.FirstName}).exec(function (err, user) {
if (err) {
res.send(400);
} else if (user) {
return res.json({firstName: user.FirstName, lastName: user.LastName, jobTitle: user.JobTitle, email: user.Email, password: user.Password});
} else {
return res.send('no users match those criteria');
}
});
The above works as expected. So my problem now is simply that I cannot interact with the database from the command line. db.<collectionName>.find({}) produces nothing.

Answer 1

This was simply a failure to understand the MongoDb docs. I read db.collection.find({}) as DatabaseName.CollectionName.find({}), when you literally need to use db. So if my database is Test, and my collection is Users, the query is use Test, and then db.Users.find({}).
Also of note, 3T Mongo Chef is a pretty rockin' GUI (graphical user interface) for nosql databases, and it's free for non-commercial use.