diff --git a/trunk/README b/trunk/README
index ad9730a..ab6087d 100644
--- a/trunk/README
+++ b/trunk/README
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Preliminarily,
 - array (E.g. has_many :airports)
 
 Nice to have extensions:
-- schema.rb which will contain schemas for the ActiveCouch documents
+- schema.rb which will contain schemas for ActiveCouch documents
 - Migrations to change document schemas
 
 Pre-requisites:
diff --git a/trunk/active_couch.rb b/trunk/active_couch.rb
index d0a157a..22cfb50 100644
--- a/trunk/active_couch.rb
+++ b/trunk/active_couch.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 $:.unshift(File.dirname(__FILE__)) unless
   $:.include?(File.dirname(__FILE__)) || $:.include?(File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__)))
 
-require 'active_couch/base'
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+require 'active_couch/errors'
+require 'active_couch/base'
+require 'active_couch/connection'
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diff --git a/trunk/active_couch/base.rb b/trunk/active_couch/base.rb
index dbe2a7f..43b6807 100644
--- a/trunk/active_couch/base.rb
+++ b/trunk/active_couch/base.rb
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 module ActiveCouch
-  class ActiveCouchError < StandardError
-  end
-  
-  class IllegalArgumentError < ActiveCouchError
-  end
-  
   class Base
     class << self
+      attr_writer :connection
+      
+      def connection
+        @connection
+      end
+      
       def define_instance_variable(var_name, default_value)
         unless var_name.is_a?(Symbol) || var_name.is_a?(String)
           raise IllegalArgumentError, "#{sym.inspect} is neither a String nor a Symbol"
diff --git a/trunk/active_couch/connection.rb b/trunk/active_couch/connection.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9490b82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/trunk/active_couch/connection.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+module ActiveCouch
+  class Connection
+    attr_accessor :server, :port
+    
+    def initialize(options = {})
+      if options.has_key?(:server) && options.has_key?(:port)
+        @server = options[:server]
+        @port = options[:port]
+      else
+        raise ConfigurationMissingError, "Configuration hash must contain keys for server and port"
+      end
+    end
+    
+    def get
+      nil
+    end
+    
+    def put(data)
+      
+    end
+  end
+end
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diff --git a/trunk/active_couch/errors.rb b/trunk/active_couch/errors.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4bbd3b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/trunk/active_couch/errors.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+module ActiveCouch
+  class ActiveCouchError < StandardError
+  end
+  
+  class IllegalArgumentError < ActiveCouchError
+  end
+  
+  class ConfigurationMissingError < ActiveCouchError
+  end
+end
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