i put an app together for myself (i do .net + couchdb work, so work on windows) to make my life a bit easier with developing in couch, and i figured it might be useful to someone besides me. it's a standalone app that i'm also going to set up as a visual studio plugin (that's in the works, but not ready for primetime yet). lets you create/edit views and lucene indexes, run 'em, etc. also has some options for scripting in/out views to file and to other cdbs.
app is called loveseat, and is available on github - http://github.com/kolosy/LoveSeat feedback (and commits :) is always welcome. thanks, alex.
