em-couchdb is a simple, convenient, and non blocking client for CouchDBi built as an EventMachine protocol. CouchDB (simplistically speaking) is a document store, which essentially means that objects can be stored in a schema-less environment.

What it is?

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With em-couchdb, you can easily save, query, delete documents, databases to/from a CouchDB database in your favourite language - Ruby.

Why?

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I love NoSQL. As well I love working with EventMachine and have too much time in hand :).

Contributors

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• Sai Venkatakrishnan (www.github.com/saivenkat)

• Justin Langhorst (www.github.com/langhorst)

Requirements

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- Ruby 1.8.5 or above (http://www.ruby-lang.org)
- rubygems 0.9.4 (http://rubygems.org)
- JSON gem (http://json.rubyforge.org) [Used for JSON encoding/decoding]
- EventMachine
- em-http
- CouchDB 0.8.0 and upwards ( http://incubator.apache.org/couchdb/community/code.html ) [Some specs require running CouchDB at localhost:5984]