couchrest_model/README.md
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# CouchRest::ExtendedDocument: CouchDB, not too close to the metal
CouchRest::ExtendedDocument adds additional functionality to the standard CouchRest Document class such as
setting properties, callbacks, typecasting, and validations.
Note: CouchRest::ExtendedDocument only supports CouchDB 0.10.0 or newer.
## Install
$ sudo gem install couchrest_extended_document
## Usage
### General
require 'couchrest_extended_document'
class Cat < CouchRest::ExtendedDocument
property :name, String
property :lives, Integer, :default => 9
property :nicknames, [String]
timestamps!
view_by :name
end
### Notable Issues
ExtendedDocument uses active_support for some of its internals. Ensure you have a stable active support gem installed
or at least 3.0.0.beta4.
JSON gem versions 1.4.X are kown to cause problems with stack overflows and general badness. Version 1.2.4 appears to work fine.
### Ruby on Rails
CouchRest::ExtendedDocument is compatible with rails and provides some ActiveRecord-like methods.
You might also be interested in the CouchRest companion rails project:
[http://github.com/hpoydar/couchrest-rails](http://github.com/hpoydar/couchrest-rails)
#### Rails 2.X
In your environment.rb file require the gem as follows:
Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
....
config.gem "couchrest_extended_document"
....
end
## Testing
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).
## Docs
API: [http://rdoc.info/projects/couchrest/couchrest_extended_document](http://rdoc.info/projects/couchrest/couchrest_extended_document)
Check the wiki for documentation and examples [http://wiki.github.com/couchrest/couchrest](http://wiki.github.com/couchrest/couchrest)
## Contact
Please post bugs, suggestions and patches to the bug tracker at [http://github.com/couchrest/couchrest/issues](http://github.com/couchrest/couchrest/issues).
Follow us on Twitter: [http://twitter.com/couchrest](http://twitter.com/couchrest)
Also, check [http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23couchrest](http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23couchrest)