I whipped up lava this morning as I wanted a view heater script that didn't depend on things (node, erlang) that other devs might want to change:
https://github.com/iwantmyname/lava - MIT licensed - jq & curl as dependencies - ideal for running from cron I'm using this to ensure a replicated backup CouchDB has the same up-to-date views as the production systems. For those who don't know, a view heater script simply curls your view periodically with ?stale=update_after. CouchDB then updates the view with any changes in the corresponding DB since the last query. This means, that when you query a less-frequently-used view, there is no significant build time as it's already up to date. The trade-off is of course that you may need to compact more often. Caveat Sysadmin! A+ Dave
