Delete everything in a MongoDB database
Asked 07 September, 2021
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I'm doing development on MongoDB. For totally non-evil purposes, I sometimes want to blow away everything in a database—that is, to delete every single collection, and whatever else might be lying around, and start from scratch. Is there a single line of code that will let me do this? Bonus points for giving both a MongoDB console method and a MongoDB Ruby driver method.

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