diff --git a/couchrest.gemspec b/couchrest.gemspec
index 04130cc..f40c640 100644
--- a/couchrest.gemspec
+++ b/couchrest.gemspec
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.name = %q{couchrest}
-  s.version = "0.16"
+  s.version = "0.17"
 
   s.required_rubygems_version = Gem::Requirement.new(">= 0") if s.respond_to? :required_rubygems_version=
   s.authors = ["J. Chris Anderson", "Matt Aimonetti"]
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.description = %q{CouchRest provides a simple interface on top of CouchDB's RESTful HTTP API, as well as including some utility scripts for managing views and attachments.}
   s.email = %q{jchris@apache.org}
   s.extra_rdoc_files = ["README.md", "LICENSE", "THANKS.md"]
-  s.files = ["LICENSE", "README.md", "Rakefile", "THANKS.md", "examples/model", "examples/model/example.rb", "examples/word_count", "examples/word_count/markov", "examples/word_count/views", "examples/word_count/views/books", "examples/word_count/views/books/chunked-map.js", "examples/word_count/views/books/united-map.js", "examples/word_count/views/markov", "examples/word_count/views/markov/chain-map.js", "examples/word_count/views/markov/chain-reduce.js", "examples/word_count/views/word_count", "examples/word_count/views/word_count/count-map.js", "examples/word_count/views/word_count/count-reduce.js", "examples/word_count/word_count.rb", "examples/word_count/word_count_query.rb", "examples/word_count/word_count_views.rb", "lib/couchrest", "lib/couchrest/commands", "lib/couchrest/commands/generate.rb", "lib/couchrest/commands/push.rb", "lib/couchrest/core", "lib/couchrest/core/database.rb", "lib/couchrest/core/design.rb", "lib/couchrest/core/document.rb", "lib/couchrest/core/response.rb", "lib/couchrest/core/server.rb", "lib/couchrest/core/view.rb", "lib/couchrest/helper", "lib/couchrest/helper/pager.rb", "lib/couchrest/helper/streamer.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins", "lib/couchrest/mixins/attachments.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/callbacks.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/design_doc.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/document_queries.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/extended_attachments.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/extended_document_mixins.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/properties.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/validation.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/views.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins.rb", "lib/couchrest/monkeypatches.rb", "lib/couchrest/more", "lib/couchrest/more/casted_model.rb", "lib/couchrest/more/extended_document.rb", "lib/couchrest/more/property.rb", "lib/couchrest/support", "lib/couchrest/support/blank.rb", "lib/couchrest/support/class.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation", "lib/couchrest/validation/auto_validate.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/contextual_validators.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validation_errors.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/absent_field_validator.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/confirmation_validator.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/format_validator.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/formats", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/formats/email.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/formats/url.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/generic_validator.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/length_validator.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/method_validator.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/numeric_validator.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/required_field_validator.rb", "lib/couchrest.rb", "spec/couchrest", "spec/couchrest/core", "spec/couchrest/core/couchrest_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/core/database_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/core/design_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/core/document_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/core/server_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/helpers", "spec/couchrest/helpers/pager_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/helpers/streamer_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/more", "spec/couchrest/more/casted_model_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/more/extended_doc_attachment_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/more/extended_doc_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/more/extended_doc_view_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/more/property_spec.rb", "spec/fixtures", "spec/fixtures/attachments", "spec/fixtures/attachments/couchdb.png", "spec/fixtures/attachments/README", "spec/fixtures/attachments/test.html", "spec/fixtures/couchapp", "spec/fixtures/couchapp/_attachments", "spec/fixtures/couchapp/_attachments/index.html", "spec/fixtures/couchapp/doc.json", "spec/fixtures/couchapp/foo", "spec/fixtures/couchapp/foo/bar.txt", "spec/fixtures/couchapp/foo/test.json", "spec/fixtures/couchapp/test.json", "spec/fixtures/couchapp/views", "spec/fixtures/couchapp/views/example-map.js", "spec/fixtures/couchapp/views/example-reduce.js", "spec/fixtures/couchapp-test", "spec/fixtures/couchapp-test/my-app", "spec/fixtures/couchapp-test/my-app/_attachments", "spec/fixtures/couchapp-test/my-app/_attachments/index.html", "spec/fixtures/couchapp-test/my-app/foo", "spec/fixtures/couchapp-test/my-app/foo/bar.txt", "spec/fixtures/couchapp-test/my-app/views", "spec/fixtures/couchapp-test/my-app/views/example-map.js", "spec/fixtures/couchapp-test/my-app/views/example-reduce.js", "spec/fixtures/more", "spec/fixtures/more/article.rb", "spec/fixtures/more/card.rb", "spec/fixtures/more/course.rb", "spec/fixtures/more/event.rb", "spec/fixtures/more/invoice.rb", "spec/fixtures/more/person.rb", "spec/fixtures/more/question.rb", "spec/fixtures/more/service.rb", "spec/fixtures/views", "spec/fixtures/views/lib.js", "spec/fixtures/views/test_view", "spec/fixtures/views/test_view/lib.js", "spec/fixtures/views/test_view/only-map.js", "spec/fixtures/views/test_view/test-map.js", "spec/fixtures/views/test_view/test-reduce.js", "spec/spec.opts", "spec/spec_helper.rb", "utils/remap.rb", "utils/subset.rb"]
+  s.files = ["LICENSE", "README.md", "Rakefile", "THANKS.md", "examples/model", "examples/model/example.rb", "examples/word_count", "examples/word_count/markov", "examples/word_count/views", "examples/word_count/views/books", "examples/word_count/views/books/chunked-map.js", "examples/word_count/views/books/united-map.js", "examples/word_count/views/markov", "examples/word_count/views/markov/chain-map.js", "examples/word_count/views/markov/chain-reduce.js", "examples/word_count/views/word_count", "examples/word_count/views/word_count/count-map.js", "examples/word_count/views/word_count/count-reduce.js", "examples/word_count/word_count.rb", "examples/word_count/word_count_query.rb", "examples/word_count/word_count_views.rb", "lib/couchrest", "lib/couchrest/commands", "lib/couchrest/commands/generate.rb", "lib/couchrest/commands/push.rb", "lib/couchrest/core", "lib/couchrest/core/database.rb", "lib/couchrest/core/design.rb", "lib/couchrest/core/document.rb", "lib/couchrest/core/response.rb", "lib/couchrest/core/server.rb", "lib/couchrest/core/view.rb", "lib/couchrest/helper", "lib/couchrest/helper/pager.rb", "lib/couchrest/helper/streamer.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins", "lib/couchrest/mixins/attachments.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/callbacks.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/design_doc.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/document_queries.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/extended_attachments.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/extended_document_mixins.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/properties.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/validation.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins/views.rb", "lib/couchrest/mixins.rb", "lib/couchrest/monkeypatches.rb", "lib/couchrest/more", "lib/couchrest/more/casted_model.rb", "lib/couchrest/more/extended_document.rb", "lib/couchrest/more/property.rb", "lib/couchrest/support", "lib/couchrest/support/blank.rb", "lib/couchrest/support/class.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation", "lib/couchrest/validation/auto_validate.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/contextual_validators.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validation_errors.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/absent_field_validator.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/confirmation_validator.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/format_validator.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/formats", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/formats/email.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/formats/url.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/generic_validator.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/length_validator.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/method_validator.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/numeric_validator.rb", "lib/couchrest/validation/validators/required_field_validator.rb", "lib/couchrest.rb", "spec/couchrest", "spec/couchrest/core", "spec/couchrest/core/couchrest_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/core/database_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/core/design_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/core/document_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/core/server_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/helpers", "spec/couchrest/helpers/pager_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/helpers/streamer_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/more", "spec/couchrest/more/casted_extended_doc_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/more/casted_model_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/more/extended_doc_attachment_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/more/extended_doc_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/more/extended_doc_view_spec.rb", "spec/couchrest/more/property_spec.rb", "spec/fixtures", "spec/fixtures/attachments", "spec/fixtures/attachments/couchdb.png", "spec/fixtures/attachments/README", "spec/fixtures/attachments/test.html", "spec/fixtures/couchapp", "spec/fixtures/couchapp/_attachments", "spec/fixtures/couchapp/_attachments/index.html", "spec/fixtures/couchapp/doc.json", "spec/fixtures/couchapp/foo", "spec/fixtures/couchapp/foo/bar.txt", "spec/fixtures/couchapp/foo/test.json", "spec/fixtures/couchapp/test.json", "spec/fixtures/couchapp/views", "spec/fixtures/couchapp/views/example-map.js", "spec/fixtures/couchapp/views/example-reduce.js", "spec/fixtures/couchapp-test", "spec/fixtures/couchapp-test/my-app", "spec/fixtures/couchapp-test/my-app/_attachments", "spec/fixtures/couchapp-test/my-app/_attachments/index.html", "spec/fixtures/couchapp-test/my-app/foo", "spec/fixtures/couchapp-test/my-app/foo/bar.txt", "spec/fixtures/couchapp-test/my-app/views", "spec/fixtures/couchapp-test/my-app/views/example-map.js", "spec/fixtures/couchapp-test/my-app/views/example-reduce.js", "spec/fixtures/more", "spec/fixtures/more/article.rb", "spec/fixtures/more/card.rb", "spec/fixtures/more/course.rb", "spec/fixtures/more/event.rb", "spec/fixtures/more/invoice.rb", "spec/fixtures/more/person.rb", "spec/fixtures/more/question.rb", "spec/fixtures/more/service.rb", "spec/fixtures/views", "spec/fixtures/views/lib.js", "spec/fixtures/views/test_view", "spec/fixtures/views/test_view/lib.js", "spec/fixtures/views/test_view/only-map.js", "spec/fixtures/views/test_view/test-map.js", "spec/fixtures/views/test_view/test-reduce.js", "spec/spec.opts", "spec/spec_helper.rb", "utils/remap.rb", "utils/subset.rb"]
   s.has_rdoc = true
   s.homepage = %q{http://github.com/jchris/couchrest}
   s.require_paths = ["lib"]
diff --git a/lib/couchrest.rb b/lib/couchrest.rb
index c292676..4751842 100644
--- a/lib/couchrest.rb
+++ b/lib/couchrest.rb
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ require 'couchrest/monkeypatches'
 
 # = CouchDB, close to the metal
 module CouchRest
-  VERSION = '0.16' unless self.const_defined?("VERSION")
+  VERSION = '0.17' unless self.const_defined?("VERSION")
   
   autoload :Server,       'couchrest/core/server'
   autoload :Database,     'couchrest/core/database'
diff --git a/lib/couchrest/core/response.rb b/lib/couchrest/core/response.rb
index 7e3424b..febfa26 100644
--- a/lib/couchrest/core/response.rb
+++ b/lib/couchrest/core/response.rb
@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
 module CouchRest
   class Response < Hash
-    def initialize(keys = {})
-      keys.each do |k,v|
+    def initialize(pkeys = {})
+      pkeys ||= {}
+      pkeys.each do |k,v|
         self[k.to_s] = v
       end
     end
-    def []= key, value
+    def []=(key, value)
       super(key.to_s, value)
     end
-    def [] key
+    def [](key)
       super(key.to_s)
     end
   end
diff --git a/lib/couchrest/mixins/properties.rb b/lib/couchrest/mixins/properties.rb
index ec93224..10463b4 100644
--- a/lib/couchrest/mixins/properties.rb
+++ b/lib/couchrest/mixins/properties.rb
@@ -55,9 +55,14 @@ module CouchRest
             else
               # Let people use :send as a Time parse arg
               klass = ::CouchRest.constantize(target)
+              # I'm not convince we should or should not create a new instance if we are casting a doc/extended doc without default value and nothing was passed
+              # unless (property.casted && 
+              #   (klass.superclass == CouchRest::ExtendedDocument || klass.superclass == CouchRest::Document) && 
+              #     (self[key].nil? || property.default.nil?))
               klass.send(property.init_method, self[key])
+              #end
             end
-            self[key].casted_by = self if self[key].respond_to?(:casted_by)
+            self[property.name].casted_by = self if self[property.name].respond_to?(:casted_by)
           end
         end
       end
diff --git a/lib/couchrest/mixins/views.rb b/lib/couchrest/mixins/views.rb
index 20dd157..fb9269c 100644
--- a/lib/couchrest/mixins/views.rb
+++ b/lib/couchrest/mixins/views.rb
@@ -133,7 +133,9 @@ module CouchRest
             fetch_view(name, opts, &block)
           else
             begin
-              view = fetch_view name, opts.merge({:include_docs => true}), &block
+              # auto load mentioned documents unless asked differently
+              opts.merge({:include_docs => true}) unless opts.has_key?(:include_docs)
+              view = fetch_view name, opts, &block
               view['rows'].collect{|r|new(r['doc'])} if view['rows']
             rescue
               # fallback for old versions of couchdb that don't 
diff --git a/lib/couchrest/more/extended_document.rb b/lib/couchrest/more/extended_document.rb
index ceb78cb..826b286 100644
--- a/lib/couchrest/more/extended_document.rb
+++ b/lib/couchrest/more/extended_document.rb
@@ -24,15 +24,17 @@ module CouchRest
       subklass.send(:include, CouchRest::Mixins::Properties)
     end
     
+    # Accessors
+    attr_accessor :casted_by
+    
     # Callbacks
     define_callbacks :create
     define_callbacks :save
     define_callbacks :update
     define_callbacks :destroy
     
-    def initialize(keys={})
+    def initialize(passed_keys={})
       apply_defaults # defined in CouchRest::Mixins::Properties
-      keys ||= {}
       super
       cast_keys      # defined in CouchRest::Mixins::Properties
       unless self['_id'] && self['_rev']
diff --git a/spec/couchrest/more/casted_extended_doc_spec.rb b/spec/couchrest/more/casted_extended_doc_spec.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f9c4b33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/couchrest/more/casted_extended_doc_spec.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '..', '..', 'spec_helper')
+require File.join(FIXTURE_PATH, 'more', 'card')
+
+class Car < CouchRest::ExtendedDocument
+  use_database TEST_SERVER.default_database
+  
+  property :name
+  property :driver, :cast_as => 'Driver'
+end
+
+class Driver < CouchRest::ExtendedDocument
+  use_database TEST_SERVER.default_database
+  # You have to add a casted_by accessor if you want to reach a casted extended doc parent
+  attr_accessor :casted_by
+  
+  property :name
+end
+
+describe "casting an extended document" do
+  
+  before(:each) do
+    @car    = Car.new(:name => 'Renault 306')
+    @driver = Driver.new(:name => 'Matt')
+  end
+  
+  # it "should not create an empty casted object" do
+  #   @car.driver.should be_nil
+  # end
+  
+  it "should let you assign the casted attribute after instantializing an object" do
+    @car.driver = @driver
+    @car.driver.name.should == 'Matt'
+  end
+  
+  it "should let the casted document who casted it" do
+    Car.new(:name => 'Renault 306', :driver => @driver)
+    @car.driver.casted_by.should == @car
+  end
+  
+end
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