// import async to make control flow simplier var async = require('async'); // import the rest of the normal stuff var mongoose = require('../../lib'); require('./person.js')(); var Person = mongoose.model('Person'); // define some dummy data var data = [ { name: 'bill', age: 25, birthday: new Date().setFullYear((new Date().getFullYear() - 25)), gender: "Male", likes: ['movies', 'games', 'dogs'], loc: [0, 0] }, { name: 'mary', age: 30, birthday: new Date().setFullYear((new Date().getFullYear() - 30)), gender: "Female", likes: ['movies', 'birds', 'cats'], loc: [1, 1] }, { name: 'bob', age: 21, birthday: new Date().setFullYear((new Date().getFullYear() - 21)), gender: "Male", likes: ['tv', 'games', 'rabbits'], loc: [3, 3] }, { name: 'lilly', age: 26, birthday: new Date().setFullYear((new Date().getFullYear() - 26)), gender: "Female", likes: ['books', 'cats', 'dogs'], loc: [6, 6] }, { name: 'alucard', age: 1000, birthday: new Date().setFullYear((new Date().getFullYear() - 1000)), gender: "Male", likes: ['glasses', 'wine', 'the night'], loc: [10, 10] } ]; mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/persons', function(err) { if (err) throw err; // create all of the dummy people async.each(data, function(item, cb) { Person.create(item, cb); }, function(err) { if (err) { // handler error } // let's find the closest person to bob Person.find({ name : 'bob' }, function(err, res) { if (err) throw err; res[0].findClosest(function(err, closest) { if (err) throw err; console.log("%s is closest to %s", res[0].name, closest); // we can also just query straight off of the model. For more // information about geospatial queries and indexes, see // http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/applications/geospatial-indexes/ var coords = [7,7]; Person.find({ loc : { $nearSphere : coords }}).limit(1).exec(function(err, res) { console.log("Closest to %s is %s", coords, res); cleanup(); }); }); }); }); }); function cleanup() { Person.remove(function() { mongoose.disconnect(); }); }