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date = "2010-05-30"
title = "Upgrading to Mongoid Beta 6"
tags = ["Ruby", "Rails", "mongoid", "monogdb"]
slug = "upgrading-to-mongoid-beta-6"
+++
If you are working with Rails 3 and Mongoid, you're likely to upgrade to [`mongoid-2.0.0.beta6`][1]. That's okay, but you will run into a few problems. Among others, one will be:

    Database should be a Mongo::DB, not NilClass

or

    Mongoid::Errors::InvalidDatabase: Mongoid::Errors::InvalidDatabase

Another, Mongoid-related problem is the error `uninitialized constant OrderedHash`.

Luckily, these problems can be solved quite easily.
[1]: http://rubygems.org/gems/mongoid
~
The first thing you need to do is make sure you use the right version of `bson_ext`. Beta 6 requires you to run `bson_ext-1.0.1` or you'll get the `OrderedHash` error. Okay, with that out of the way, let's focus on the MongoDB errors.

The problem is that Mongoid is accessed/used before it is properly initialized. To resolve this issue, add the following line to your other requires at the top of `config/application.rb`.

    require 'mongoid/railtie'

With that, you initialize Mongoid correctly. Hope it helps.

Update: I also ran into `keys must be strings or symbols` errors. This is now a _known issue_ with `mongoid-2.0.0.beta6` and has been fixed in `master`. If you are using Bundler (you are, aren't you?) then you can use the master branch instead of the gem:

    # gem 'mongoid', '2.0.0.beta6'
    gem 'mongoid', :git => 'http://github.com/durran/mongoid.git'