Meteor on a Nitrous box: how to add a test record in the MongoDB database?

Question

So, I have started to test Meteor on a Nitrous.io box in the cloud. I used to enter a test record by typing it directly into the Chrome browser console, like:

Projects.insert({name:'First Project',client:'Project Central',duedate:new Date(),status:'On Hold'});

However, that does not work on Nitrous. So, how do I add a test record in my meteor collection to work on?

Who can help me in the right direction? Much appreciated.

Answer 1

After you run meteor run in a Nitrous.io console,

open up another console and run meteor mongo.

Then you can type in a db.Projects.insert(...) or other mongoDB command.

Answer 2

There might be the case if you removed insecure package, insert will not work from browser client.

Check if the 'insecure' package installed or not using following command

meteor list --using

which will list the packages which are used by the meteor app.