Where Does Meteor Store It's Data?

Question

I have just started playing around with Meteor and MongoDB for the first time. I come from a .net developer background and MSSQL. I have created a simple web following this tutorial. Also, I have added the accounts-password package to my app as well. Everything works like a charm, I can add data to my application in real time and I can create users and login, etc, etc. However, when I open up Robomongo and look for the stored data, I do not find any information inside my 'carbrands' collection declared in carbrands.js as

CarBrands= new Meteor.Collection("carbrands");

Also, no users collection is created. My Robomongo profile is connected to localhost. If I try to access CarBrands from Chrome console i get the following output:

> CarBrands.find();
> LocalCollection.Cursor {collection: LocalCollection, selector_id: undefined, selector_f: function, sort_f: null, skip: undefined…}

Where is the meteor data being saved to and how can i view it ?

UPDATE**: I have run mongo command in linux terminal and the result returned are local and test. test is empty. Accessing local returns the same collections as viewed in Robomongo

Answer 1

You need to run:

meteor mongo

from your project, not your usual mongoDB install:

http://docs.meteor.com/#meteormongo