Checking the actual database

Let's take a quick look at the database itself to see what happened during the execution of the app. Since the server is currently up and running, we can connect to it using the Mongo shell-a command line interface to the MongoDB server. Execute the following commands to connect to the server using Mongo and run a query against the chapter's collection. As you can see in the upcoming code, Mongo shell connects to a default database named test initially. We need to manually specify the database name to switch to if it's something other than test:

    $ mongo
    MongoDB shell version: 2.4.8
    connecting to: test
    > use myproject
    > show collections
    chapters
    system.indexes
    > db.chapters.find().pretty()  

You should see something similar to the following output:

{  
    'id' : ObjectId("5547e734cdf16a5ca59531a7"), 
    'Title': 'Snow Crash',  
    'Author': 'Neal Stephenson'  
}, 
{  
    'id' : ObjectId("5547e734cdf16a5ca59531a7"), 
    'Title': 'Snow Crash',  
    'Author': 'Neal Stephenson' 
}