Hi Ido, I thought I'd share how I got to know CouchDB. I heard about it via ruby channels and then read about couchapp however that had something to do with python and so went back to ruby. At the time (and now) couchrest was how I interacted with couch using futon to figure out views.
Then I looked through the book again the other day and from what I gathered a couchapp built site is really just a design doc (which I also have not totally comprehended what these can do) and couchapp is no more than a bunch of script(s) to organise the design doc and is not required to actually run/render the site. If this line of thought is accurate one could use futon to build an app in it's entirety which is actually pretty cool. In my limited experience as long as you get documents, map/reduce your pretty much there and able to achieve a lot :) For now I really like using ruby (mainly cause I can write html and css in haml/sass) and will most likely be building apps that require the 3 layers Nicholas On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Ido Ran <ido....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have successfully download Pages from git and push it to my > couchone.comserver. > The application is working, but... > > It is still hard for me to understand how to change it and write my own > application. > > > 1. I don't understand what the ddoc is, but it looks important. > 2. I understand from the book the separation between documents, views, > lists but still not enough to use them. > 3. When I push the CouchApp using Push command to my database everything > get upload to a single document, is that supposed to be like that? All > the > attachments are "jam" in single document in the database. It does not > look > right for me, but I'm the new guy so :) > 4. I know it take time to learn stuff, but I have hard time find an > anchor to hold to and get to the rest (if you see what I mean). > > As I said, I'll keep on trying. I spent about hour each night to progress > so > it's not very fast. > > Ido > > > On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:21 PM, J Chris Anderson <jch...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > > > On Sep 6, 2010, at 12:15 PM, Ido Ran wrote: > > > > > Thank you very much. > > > I'll try to use Pages and see how it goes. > > > > > > Does the draft version of the book is the "most recent" or is it the > > other > > > way around? > > > > > > > The draft is newer (and you are welcome to change it using Github) > > > > let us know how Pages goes! > > > > Chris > > > > > Thank you, > > > Ido > > > > > > On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 6:14 PM, J Chris Anderson <jch...@apache.org> > > wrote: > > > > > >> > > >> On Sep 5, 2010, at 11:37 PM, Ido Ran wrote: > > >> > > >>> Hi, > > >>> I'm learning CouchDB using the CouchDB Definitive Guide (draft > > edition). > > >>> I've got to part III where I start playing with Sofa application to > get > > >> my > > >>> hand on real CouchApp, but there are some prolems: > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> 1. The code presented in the book does not match the code in sofa > > >> github > > >>> repository - jchris's sofa at master - GitHub< > > >> http://github.com/jchris/sofa> > > >>> 2. The application in the github repository does not work right. I > can > > >>> push it to CouchDB (I'm using couchone.com or couch.io server) but > > the > > >>> post form does not work, currently because app.docForm is deprecated > > >> but I > > >>> don't understand how to fix it. > > >>> 3. When I push the app to CouchDB server I get a database with > single > > >>> document with _id of sofa. I thought it should be a collection of > > >> documents, > > >>> not single document. > > >> > > >> Thanks - these are serious issues... I've got a running copy of Sofa > at > > >> http://jchrisa.net so I know it can work. I've got to set aside a few > > days > > >> to test the book's instructions etc, make sure they still map to > > reality. > > >> > > >> In the meantime you can try running the Pages application (a wiki > which > > >> uses many of the same techniques as Sofa, but with a fresher > > implementation) > > >> > > >> http://github.com/couchone/pages > > >> > > >> The README to Pages is up to date and accurate. > > >> > > >> Best, > > >> Chris > > >> > > >> > > >>> > > >>> Thank you, > > >>> Ido > > >> > > >> > > > > >
