Comments on: CouchDB on Rails (part 5 of ?)

By: Memory Cards

Memory Cards — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:09:39 +0000

Like all good projects, RelaxDB has some RSpec tests, but before i can run them i need a few more gems such as extlib, json, uuid. Just use 'gem install' as root to install them. The specs will not run until you meet all the requirements.

By: Claes Nygren

Claes Nygren — Sat, 23 May 2009 17:39:14 +0000

A few things:
I think you now have to specify a design_doc in RelaxDB.configure such as:

RelaxDB.configure :host => "localhost", :port => 5984, :design_doc => "app"

also you may have to do

rake db:migrate

just to create a db/schema.rb, even if you are not using sqlite before you do

rake spec

By: BiLO

BiLO — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:11:15 +0000

very helpful . thank you

By: aaronasjones

aaronasjones — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:55:41 +0000

Thank you for sharing this information.
Reverse Access Livedoor

By: Daniel Tsadok

Daniel Tsadok — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:24:22 +0000

Great writeup! Aimee – I agree, that setting the properties explicitly is a pain.

I would imagine that creating a view explicitly in CouchDB would let you do a search by title – sort of like creating a stored procedure (but I haven't read parts 6+ yet, so maybe I'm jumping the gun!) Not Rails-y, but it's not designed for Rails…

By: Bruno

Bruno — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:46:38 +0000

Hi Aimee,
I configured the app like you sad. But when rails initialize it keeps calling the database.yml. I tried to turn off in enviroment.rb:
config.frameworks -= [ :active_record, :active_resource, :action_mailer ]
There's a bug in rails that it doens't work very well. I think I'm missing something here. Do you have your source code anywhere so I can look at it?
thanks

By: Aimee

Aimee — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:48:08 +0000

Hi Bruno,

I don't think you can use database.yml together with CouchDB. There is no couchdb adapter that i know of.

If you're using RelaxDB you could try putting the details into your config/environment.rb:

RelaxDB.configure(:host => 'localhost', :port => 5984) RelaxDB.use_db 'sysx_development'

I can't remember whether i maybe had to create an empty MySQL database just so that the database.yml didn't cry.

By: Bruno

Bruno — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:57:22 +0000

Hi Aimee. First of all congratulations on your blog. I'm learning a lot.
Now I need some help with running the rspec in my project.
I'm getting the error:
rake aborted!
#42000Unknown database 'sysx_development'
when i run "rake rspec". This is the database that is in my database.yml file and is setted to mysql. I tried to configure the file like this:
development:
adapter: couchdb
database: sysx_development
host: 127.0.0.1
port: 5984
After that, executing rspec asks for a gem called activerecord-couchdb-adapter. But it doesn't exist. Am I going throw the wrong way?

By: Aimee

Aimee — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:25:21 +0000

Hi Randy, the specs are working just fine for me with the RelaxDB. Is your CouchDB server running?

By: Randy

Randy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:24:20 +0000

If you are having problems running the spec, you might need to update your gems.

This is the error I was getting:

undefined method `generate' for "0322b6d0-6270-012b-24ea-0017f2d556c5":String