How to use an abbreviated field name in MongoMapper

Question

I'm using MongoMapper and am trying to come up with a way to use an abbreviated field name. I want to keep the keys as plain english but have the field names stored short (e.g. "name" maps to "_n"). I noticed a conversation but it ended up closed (https://github.com/jnunemaker/mongomapper/pull/351) and I was wondering if anybody has an example of how to accomplish this. I'd be extremely grateful for any feedback!

Answer 1

Related to that conversation is another pull request, #353. It hasn't been pulled yet but I'm guessing it likely will be, it simply may have been forgotten by the maintainers.

When pulled, your case will look like:

class User
  include MongoMapper::Document
  key :name, String, :abbr => :_n
end

I recommended leaving a comment on #353 saying that you were looking for that feature.