heroku mongohq and mongoid Mongo::ConnectionFailure
UPDATE 12th aug 2010: Although I got an accepted answer 6th may from Jackues Crocker, there are aspects of this issue that makes it easy to mess up! It happened to me yet again and I decided to research the mongoid source code. So, here it goes: Currently, host: port: name/database: settings TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER the uri: setting. Hence...