diff --git a/lib/couchrest.rb b/lib/couchrest.rb
index 899e117..b827441 100644
--- a/lib/couchrest.rb
+++ b/lib/couchrest.rb
@@ -6,5 +6,6 @@ require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/couch_rest'
 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/database'
 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/pager'
 require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/file_manager'
+require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/streamer'
 
 
diff --git a/lib/database.rb b/lib/database.rb
index bb7bfbc..73397f6 100644
--- a/lib/database.rb
+++ b/lib/database.rb
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ require "base64"
 
 class CouchRest
   class Database
-    attr_accessor :server, :host, :name
+    attr_reader :server, :host, :name, :root
+     
     def initialize server, name
       @name = name
       @server = server
diff --git a/lib/streamer.rb b/lib/streamer.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c9133ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/streamer.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+class CouchRest
+  class Streamer
+    attr_accessor :db
+    def initialize db
+      @db = db
+    end
+    
+    def view name, params = nil
+      urlst = /^_/.match(name) ? "#{@db.root}/#{name}" : "#{@db.root}/_view/#{name}"
+      url = CouchRest.paramify_url urlst, params
+      IO.popen("curl --silent #{url}") do |view|
+        view.gets # discard header
+        while row = parse_line(view.gets)
+          yield row
+        end
+      end
+    end
+    
+    private
+    
+    def parse_line line
+      return nil unless line
+      if /(\{.*\}),?/.match(line.chomp)
+        JSON.parse($1)
+      end
+    end
+    
+  end
+end
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diff --git a/spec/streamer_spec.rb b/spec/streamer_spec.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..da0b5f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/streamer_spec.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/spec_helper'
+
+describe CouchRest::Streamer do
+  before(:all) do
+    @cr = CouchRest.new(COUCHHOST)
+    @db = @cr.database(TESTDB)
+    @db.delete! rescue nil
+    @db = @cr.create_db(TESTDB) rescue nil
+    @streamer = CouchRest::Streamer.new(@db)
+    @docs = (1..1000).collect{|i| {:integer => i, :string => i.to_s}}
+    @db.bulk_save(@docs)
+  end
+  
+  it "should yield each row in a view" do
+    count = 0
+    sum = 0
+    @streamer.view("_all_docs") do |row|
+      count += 1
+    end
+    count.should == 1000
+  end
+  
+end
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