@@ -1,40 +1,14 @@ # Installing -## Ruby - -To run CouchApp's Ruby uploader script, you'll need Ruby 1.8.6 or better, hopefully your package management system supports Ruby and (like Debian) also a Ruby Development package, which you'll need to build the native JSON gem etc. - -You'll also [need to install RubyGems.]() I've never had an easy time doing this part of a dev-env bootstrap, so let me wish you luck. There's a nacent Python implementation, so if the Ruby depedencies aren't your style, watch [Jan's CouchApp repo](http://github.com/janl/couchapp), where he's at work on the Python scripts. - -### Easy Way - -It's recommended that you try this first, if it doesn't work, the next option is less fancy, but maybe more reliable. - - # get the latest rubygems (optional) - sudo gem update --system - # install CouchApp - sudo gem install couchapp - -Once this is done, run `couchapp generate relax` and generally pick up with the README. - -### Hard Way - -Once you've got RubyGems, (please excuse the `sudo`, it's to install the `couchapp` script in your path) run: - - git clone git://github.com/jchris/couchapp.git && cd couchapp - gem build couchapp.gemspec - sudo gem install couchapp-*.gem - -You might have to satisfy some dependencies, especially [CouchRest](http://github.com/jchris/couchrest). Plan B here is `gem install couchrest`, which you might have to sudo, depending on your system. - -Once this is done, run `couchapp generate relax` and generally pick up with the README. - ## Python -The Python code is currently in rapid development. See the `python` directory. +If `sudo easy_install couchapp` doesn't work for you, you can install from source. -We'll just do shared integration tests, at the command-line level, so each language can set about porting it's peers unit tests if there are implementation questions. + git clone git://github.com/jchris/couchapp.git + cd couchapp + sudo python setup.py install +You may need to satisfy some dependencies. We hope this will happen automatically but... you never know. ## Questions and Comments INSTALLING.md @@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ CouchDB's replication means that programs running locally, can still be social. ## Installation - easy_install couchapp + sudo easy_install couchapp -If this gives you trouble, see the INSTALLING file for more options, including the Ruby version of `couchapp`. +If this gives you trouble, see the INSTALLING file for more options. ### Begin Here README.md 2818798e928391675f62560a7e8dd2499cde3f59 Chris Anderson jchris@grabb.it http://github.com/jchris/couchapp/commit/1a24b226e1e9921983d375afec6757a331fb409a 1a24b226e1e9921983d375afec6757a331fb409a 2009-02-22T18:09:33-08:00 2009-02-22T18:09:33-08:00 updated python installation instructions a96d69acc2e1b201717ae233991a245f15c10808 Chris Anderson jchris@grabb.it