Support for long ints about mongomapper

[jnunemaker]

So is there something I am suppose to do with this? Seems like more of a statement.

[hunter]

Oops, just me not paying enough attention when writing a ticket ;)

I guess the question is, can we add support for large ints? It seems the Integer key raises the mongo driver 4-bit int error. The typecast method in key.rb just seems to pass this on the Int so it may be the driver. I've not had time to dig further. Any thoughts?

[jnunemaker]

I don't really know much on the subject. I'd hit up the mongodb mailing list about best way to store big ints and we can go from there.

[jnunemaker]

Longs are now supported by the ruby driver. That with the combination of keys with no type means you could use longs now with mongomapper if you just do something like this:

  class Foo
    include MongoMapper::Document

    key :somelongint
  end

  Foo.new.somelongint = 9223372036854775807 # or whatever

Also, this is kind of duplicate with ticket #55.