couchrest_model/README.markdown

## CouchRest - CouchDB, close to the metal

CouchRest is based on [CouchDB's couch.js test library](http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/couchdb/trunk/share/www/script/couch.js), which I find to be concise, clear, and well designed. CouchRest lightly wraps CouchDB's HTTP API, managing JSON serialization, and remembering the URI-paths to CouchDB's API endpoints so you don't have to.

CouchRest's lighweight is designed to make a simple base for application and framework-specific object oriented APIs.

### Easy Install

`sudo gem install jchris-couchrest -s http://gems.github.com`

### Relax, it's RESTful

The core of Couchrest is Heroku’s excellent REST Client Ruby HTTP wrapper. REST Client takes all the nastyness of Net::HTTP and gives is a pretty face, while still giving you more control than Open-URI. I recommend it anytime you’re interfacing with a well-defined web service. 

### Running the Specs

The most complete documentation is the spec/ directory. To validate your CouchRest install, from the project root directory run `rake`, or `autotest` (requires RSpec and optionally ZenTest for autotest support). 

### Examples

Quick Start:

    # with !, it creates the database if it doesn't already exist
    @db = CouchRest.database!("http://localhost:5984/couchrest-test")
    response = @db.save({:key => 'value', 'another key' => 'another value'})
    doc = @db.get(response['id'])
    puts doc.inspect

Bulk Save:

    @db.bulk_save([
        {"wild" => "and random"},
        {"mild" => "yet local"},
        {"another" => ["set","of","keys"]}
      ])
    # returns ids and revs of the current docs
    puts @db.documents.inspect 

Creating and Querying Views:

    @db.save({
      "_id" => "_design/first", 
      :views => {
        :test => {
          :map => "function(doc){for(var w in doc){ if(!w.match(/^_/))emit(w,doc[w])}}"
          }
        }
      })
    puts @db.view('first/test')['rows'].inspect