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ActiveCouch – a CouchDB library in the spirit of ActiveResource and ActiveRecord
2 Feb 2008My fellow Rubyist at work, Arun Thampi, has released ActiveCouch, a Ruby library for CouchDB (if you don’t know what CouchDB is, read this). Check out the official blog announcement of ActiveCouch.
ActiveCouch tries to be an ActiveResource and ActiveRecord (yes, there is even an ActiveCouch::Migration class for creating CouchDB views) equivalent for representing CouchDB documents in Ruby. I wish I could write some coherent code examples here but I am not that up to date with the latest changes in ActiveCouch (despite my name being tagged as a committer to ActiveCouch, it is largely Arun’s awesome little baby).
Never fear though, since Arun and I are chowing down our own dog food – we’re currently porting several gigabytes worth of hotel data from our hacked together XML and Ferret-based library to use the ActiveCouch library. I’m sure we’ll get a more coherent API after this exercise, since we are no longer relying on specs and mocks, but working on a Real Application.
If you decide to try out ActiveCouch, do let us know of any feedback or bug reports at the ActiveCouch Google Code site. ActiveCouch is Open Source, so if you’ve patches that’s even better!
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7 Responses to ActiveCouch – a CouchDB library in the spirit of ActiveResource and ActiveRecord
Harish Mallipeddi
February 2nd, 2008 at 8pm
Sweet! Bezurk is now powered by Erlang too :)
Jack Danger Canty
March 9th, 2008 at 3am
This is great news – thanks for this. Do you have the project in GitHub yet?
Chu Yeow
March 9th, 2008 at 12pm
Nope, not yet, though Arun is probably going to when he finds some time.
CouchFoo: Like ActiveRecord, but for CouchDB
February 11th, 2009 at 9pm
[...] developer, wanted to use CouchDB but found the existing libraries (such as RelaxDB, CouchREST, ActiveCouch and CouchPotato) lacking – not that they are, as such, but they didn’t fit George’s needs. George [...]
Aggregator @ Bitubique
February 11th, 2009 at 10pm
RubyInside: CouchFoo: Like ActiveRecord, but for CouchDB…
Apache CouchDB is a “distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database accessible via a RESTful HTTP/JSON API” that has received quite a bit of publicity in developer circles in the past year. It’s written in Erlang, so has all …
CouchFoo: Igual ao ActiveRecord, mas para CouchDB
February 13th, 2009 at 12am
[...] developer, wanted to use CouchDB but found the existing libraries (such as RelaxDB, CouchREST, ActiveCouch and CouchPotato) lacking – not that they are, as such, but they didn’t fit George’s needs. George [...]
CouchFoo: Like ActiveRecord, but for CouchDB « A little story
February 13th, 2009 at 8pm
[...] developer, wanted to use CouchDB but found the existing libraries (such as RelaxDB, CouchREST, ActiveCouch and CouchPotato) lacking – not that they are, as such, but they didn’t fit George’s [...]