CouchRest: CouchDB, close to the metal

CouchRest is based on CouchDB’s couch.js test library, 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 is designed to make a simple base for application and framework-specific object oriented APIs. CouchRest is Object-Mapper agnostic, the parsed JSON it returns from CouchDB shows up as subclasses of Ruby's Hash. Naked JSON, just as it was mean to be.

CouchDB Version

Tested on latest stable release (1.6.X), but little has changed in the last few year and should work on older versions. Also known to work fine on Cloudant.

Install

$ sudo gem install couchrest

Modelling

For more complete modelling support based on ActiveModel, please checkout CouchRest's sister project: CouchRest Model.

Running the Specs

The most complete documentation is the spec/ directory. To validate your CouchRest install, from the project root directory use bundler to install the dependencies and then run the tests:

$ bundle install
$ bundle exec rake

To date, the couchrest specs have been shown to run on:

Docs

API: rdoc.info/projects/couchrest/couchrest

Check the wiki for documentation and examples wiki.github.com/couchrest/couchrest

Contact

Please post bugs, suggestions and patches to the bug tracker at github.com/couchrest/couchrest/issues.

Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/couchrest

Also, check twitter.com/search?q=couchrest