Connecting to a MongoDB cartridge using Robomongo from your local machine

In the Accessing a MongoDB cartridge from your local machine recipe, you learned how to connect to a MongoDB cartridge using the mongo command-line client from your local machine. In this recipe, you will learn how to connect to a MongoDB cartridge using RoboMongo from your local machine. RoboMongo (http://robomongo.org/) is an open source, cross-platform MongoDB GUI management tool. We used RoboMongo because it is available across all the operating systems, and you can type in all the commands you type in the mongo shell in RoboMongo. It feels natural to developers who are used to the mongo shell.

Getting ready

To complete this recipe, you will need an application with a MongoDB cartridge. Refer to the Adding a MongoDB cartridge to your application recipe in this chapter to learn how to add a MongoDB cartridge. Also, you will need the RoboMongo tool installed on your local machine. You can download the RoboMongo tool...