Meteor.methods addChatToCollection: (meetingId, messageObject) -> entry = meetingId: meetingId message: chat_type: messageObject.chat_type message: messageObject.message to_username: messageObject.to_username from_tz_offset: messageObject.from_tz_offset from_color: messageObject.from_color to_userid: messageObject.to_userid from_userid: messageObject.from_userid from_time: messageObject.from_time from_username: messageObject.from_username from_lang: messageObject.from_lang id = Meteor.Chat.insert(entry) console.log "added chat id=[#{id}]:#{messageObject.message}. Chat.size is now #{Meteor.Chat.find({meetingId: meetingId}).count()}" sendChatMessagetoServer: (meetingId, messageObject) -> Meteor.call "publishChatMessage", meetingId, messageObject deletePrivateChatMessages: (user1, user2) -> console.log "deleting chat conversation" Meteor.Chat.remove({ # find all and remove private messages between the 2 users 'message.chat_type': 'PRIVATE_CHAT', $or: [{'message.from_userid': user1, 'message.to_userid': user2},{'message.from_userid': user2, 'message.to_userid': user1}] })