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.
$ sudo gem install couchrest
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.
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).
API: http://rdoc.info/projects/couchrest/couchrest
Check the wiki for documentation and examples http://wiki.github.com/couchrest/couchrest
Please post bugs, suggestions and patches to the bug tracker at http://github.com/couchrest/couchrest/issues.
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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