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.
Note: CouchRest only support CouchDB 0.9.0 or newer. Some features requires CouchDB 0.10.0 or newer.
Easy Install
$ sudo gem install couchrest
Relax, it's RESTful
CouchRest rests on top of a HTTP abstraction layer using by default Heroku’s excellent REST Client Ruby HTTP wrapper. Other adapters can be added to support more http libraries.
Running the Specs
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
Check the wiki for documentation and examples http://wiki.github.com/couchrest/couchrest
Contact
Please post bugs, suggestions and patches to the bug tracker at http://github.com/couchrest/couchrest/issues.
Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/couchrest
Also, check http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23couchrest
Ruby on Rails
CouchRest is compatible with rails and can even be used a Rails plugin. However, you might be interested in the CouchRest companion rails project: http://github.com/hpoydar/couchrest-rails