diff --git a/lib/couchrest/helper/templates/example-map.js b/lib/couchrest/helper/templates/example-map.js
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+// an example map function, emits the doc id 
+// and the list of keys it contains
+
+function(doc) {
+  var k, keys = []
+  for (k in doc) keys.push(k);
+  emit(doc._id, keys);
+};
diff --git a/lib/couchrest/helper/templates/example-reduce.js b/lib/couchrest/helper/templates/example-reduce.js
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+// example reduce function to count the
+// number of rows in a given key range.
+
+function(keys, value, rereduce) {
+  if (rereduce) {
+    return sum(values);
+  } else {
+    return values.length;
+  }
+};
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diff --git a/lib/couchrest/helper/templates/index.html b/lib/couchrest/helper/templates/index.html
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+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+  <head>
+    <title>Generated CouchApp</title>
+    <link rel="stylesheet" href="screen.css" type="text/css">
+  </head>
+  <body>
+    <h1>Generated CouchApp</h1>
+    <ul id="view"></ul>
+  </body>
+  <script src="/_utils/script/json2.js"></script>
+  <script src="/_utils/script/jquery.js?1.2.6"></script>
+  <script src="/_utils/script/jquery.couch.js?0.8.0"></script>
+  <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
+    $(function() {
+      var dbname = document.location.href.split('/')[3];
+      var design = unescape(document.location.href.split('/')[4]).split('/')[1];
+      var DB = $.couch.db(dbname);
+      DB.view(design+"/example-map",{success: function(json) {
+        $("#view").html(json.rows.map(function(row) {
+          return '<li>'+row.key+'</li>';
+        }).join(''));
+      }});
+    });
+  </script>
+</html>
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