Do collection hooks work when inserting into the database directly?

[francisbyrne]

I've written a hook like so:

Recordings.after.insert(function(userId, rec) {
  console.log('Inserted recording..................');
});

Then I tried inserting directly into the database via meteor mongo and my hook was never called.

Is that expected behaviour?

[rclai]

It won't work if you do mongo operations directly in the mongo shell.

[francisbyrne]

Gotcha, thanks.

[rclai]

You might be able to use Meteor's observe APIs to do something, at least after an operation.