Objectid Not Storing Hexadecimal Value

Originally, my Sails/Mongo was storing the ObjectID in the database as follows: '_id' : ObjectId('557077fb836bdee256004232') Not sure what changed or happened, but now new records

Solution 1:

Answering my own question!

Seemed to be something goofy happening with the brew installation of MongoDB. Manually re-installing it from http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-os-x/ and then restoring my backed up database seemed to do the trick.

I'd still love to know from a from a code/technical standpoint why my environment suddenly decided to start returning the 12-byt BSON ObjectID rather than the Hexadecimal ObjectID... but until then hopefully a simple manual re-install will help others who come across this strange issue!