On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:28 PM, Dave Cottlehuber <[email protected]> wrote: > On 24 October 2011 16:57, Clarke Bishop <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am setting up a development environment to learn CouchDB. But, I'm using >> Windows. > > Hey Clarke, > > You can run CouchDB in windows with the same experience as on linux. > Read http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Quirks_on_Windows to make sure > your shell quoting is OK with the various curl examples. Use my > bundled windows installer at > https://github.com/downloads/dch/couchdb/setup-couchdb-1.1.0+COUCHDB-1152_otp_R14B03.exe > and you'll not need any other bundled dependencies. Just edit the > local.ini file to allow access from other IP addresses (bind_address = > 0.0.0.0) and you're away. > > For pushing code in/out of couchdb, I usually use couchapp.exe from > Benoît https://github.com/downloads/couchapp/couchapp/couchapp-0.8.1-win.zip > although I've not personally tried this specific version.There are a > number of other tools listed on http://couchapp.org/page/index > including kanso as you've noted. > >> I tried Cygwin, but kept running into various problems. So, I decided to >> switch to Linux running under VMware. I still think this is the best >> direction. > > Yes, longterm get comfortable with linux and skip cygwin, it is > another slow world of pain. Kanso is very cool but I didn't get node + > kanso working on windows natively. You're best off running this in a > linux shell directly. > > A good halfway house is to run a hosted couchdb instance, and use > couchapp or a similar tool to push your data up & down. Ryan has a > slick java-based tool for this and there's a whole other slew of these > all listed on http://couchapp.org/. > >> I downloaded the latest version of Ubuntu (11.10) and installed it. But, >> then I discovered that CouchDB 1.1 support was limited, and I haven't been >> able to get CouchDB installed. > > This is probably the most frustrating part of CouchDB - we have > several important dependencies including OpenSSL, Erlang and Mozilla's > JavaScript interpreter. These are very common and often each distro > has differing versions than the ones we'd prefer to use. > > So the fastest way to get running is to use a free hosted tier from > iriscouch.com or cloudant.com. I think couchbase also provides an > ubuntu compatible single server install that includes these, but I've > not tried it. Again YMMV as you are discovering! > > A+ > Dave >
You can also use refuge which embed couchdb (http://refuge.io) . For couchapps dev I would recommend erica (http://github.com/benoitc/erica) over couchapp these days though stable (and probably last) version of couchapp will be released asap (delayed due to a busy planning) . - benoit
