0.5.8 Supports directly supplying couchdb url

nano.js

@@ -34,7 +34,12 @@ var request = require('request')
 module.exports = exports = nano = function database_module(cfg) {
   var public_functions = {};
   if(typeof cfg === "string") {
-    cfg = require(cfg); // no cfg? maybe it's a file path?
+    try {
+      cfg = require(cfg); // no cfg? maybe it's a file path?
+    }
+    catch(e) {
+      cfg = {url: cfg}; // not a file path? guess it's the url
+    }
   }
   if(cfg.proxy) {
     request = request.defaults({proxy: cfg.proxy}); // proxy support

package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 { "name": "nano"
 , "description": "minimalistic couchdb driver for node.js"
 , "homepage": "http://github.com/dscape/nano"
-, "version": "0.5.7"
+, "version": "0.5.8"
 , "author": "Nuno Job <nunojobpinto@gmail.com> (http://nunojob.com)"
 , "keywords": ["couchdb", "data", "request", "json", "nosql", "micro", "nano"]
 , "dependencies": {"request": "~2.0.5", "underscore": "~1.1.7"}