Re: Getting started with CouchDB.

[patrick flaherty]

thanx Paul, that's very helpful.
Unfortunately futon is not quite as helpful: the lower right tells me 
version 0.0.0.  Where else can I find the version number
of my current CouchDB?  (I'm of course looking around elsewhere already).

Don't mind trying to build CouchDB for myself.  Have an up-to-date 
cygwin kit (and visual studio, etc) and have recently built
both openssl and firefox on my XP SP2 machine so I don't feel too 
uncomfortable with building open source projects on windows.

pat



Paul Davis wrote:
Patrick,

My first guess is that those Windows binaries are for CouchDB 0.8.x
and the tutorial you're following is referring to 0.9.x features.
Futon should tell you what version you're running in the bottom right
corner. The _show stuff is definitely 0.9.x only. If they are old
binaries, there's been quite a bit of work recently on getting a 0.9.x
installer going. I know there's a URL for build instructions on
windows around here somewhere but I'm not sure if they finished up a
full installer quite yet.

HTH,
Paul Davis

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 4:41 PM, patrick flaherty<p...@well.com> wrote:
  
Hi,

I do a good deal of database programming - very little web programming.  Am
interested in CouchDB's database capabilities (as opposed to its
web interface which is what's perhaps hanging me up at the moment).

After I'd figured out a thing or two, successfully did the windows install
from here:

http://www.brunomlopes.com/software/couch-db-binaries

(thanx to whoever created it - it works well).

So I can go to futon and create databases, documents, etc.

Then tried this 15-minute tutorial:

http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/CouchIn15Minutes

It seems to have worked up till #6.  #6 is where you query from
_design/render over to the ID of the document you created previously trying
to invoke the 'greetings' property.  In my case that would be:

http://localhost:5984/example/_design/render/_show/salute/25cedb097d37e389ca5763fe76a79007

This fails with, as best I've been able to format it, the trace that
follows:

{"error":"EXIT":"reason":"{function_clause,
  [{couch_httpd,handle_db_request,
       [{mochiweb_request,#Port<0.2357>,'GET',

\"\/example\/_design\/render\/%2225cedb097d37e389ca5763fe76a79007%22\",
            {1,1},
            {9,
             {\"host\",
              {'Host',\"localhost:5984\"},
              {\"accept\",
               {'Accept',

 \"text\/html,application\/xhtml+xml,application\/xml;q=0.9,*\/*;q=0.8\"},
               nil,
               {\"accept-language\",
                {'Accept-Language',\"en-us,en;q=0.5\"},
                {\"accept-encoding\",
                 {'Accept-Encoding',\"gzip,deflate\"},
                 {\"accept-charset\",
                  {'Accept-Charset',\"ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7\"},
                  nil,nil},
                 nil},
                {\"connection\",{'Connection',\"keep-alive\"},nil,nil}}},
              {\"user-agent\",
               {'User-Agent',
                   \"Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko\/20090708 Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0;
en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko\/20090407 Minefield\/3.6a1pre AutoPager\/0.5.2.2
(http:\/\/www.teesoft.info\/)\"},
               {\"keep-alive\",{'Keep-Alive',\"115\"},nil,nil},
               {\"x-autopager\",
                {\"X-Autopager\",\"0.5.2.2 (http:\/\/www.teesoft.info\/)\"},
                nil,nil}}}}},
        'GET',
        {\"example\",<0.71.0>,

 [\"_design\",\"render\",\"%2225cedb097d37e389ca5763fe76a79007%22\"]}]},
   {couch_httpd,handle_request,2},
   {mochiweb_http,headers,4},
   {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}"}

The function would appear to be mal-formed and while I've tried all kinds of
possibilities for rewriting it, I continue to get the above trace.

I don't think the problem is browser dependent but tried two version of FF
as well as IE 7.  And no go.  (one version, above, has AutoPager - the
other version does not).

Hope someone has some idea of what I might be doing wrong.

pat