John, just guessing but are you trying to access your couchdb from a local html file? ie opening file://somepath/index.html and trying to access couchdb? If so, you cant do that because of cross domain requests. You would want to move to a couchapp type tool if you want to do simple html pages, access couchdb.
If you want to see the jquery.couch.js api, look here: http://daleharvey.github.com/jquery.couch.js-docs/symbols/%24.couch.db.html Also, there are a million ways to do this, but I would humbly recommend https://github.com/garden20/baseline-garden-app . It is pretty easy to get going with. Ping me, or join #kanso if you need help. Other options include putting a proxy in-front of your couchdb that will allow you to access it cross domain. Ryan On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Zera Holladay <[email protected]> wrote: > The calls are all async. Add success callbacks like jQuery examples. > On Sep 15, 2012 5:27 PM, "john.tiger" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> using couch 1.2 (debian unstable) in a simple html 5 page >> I pulled jquery.couch.js from github - is this right version to use ? >> trying to follow various references resulted in no data being shown. >> chrome js console not showing errors >> >> working: >> var test = $.couch.db("mydb"); >> alert("test"+ JSON.stringify(test)); >> => alert shows name of database >> >> not working: >> var db = "mydb"; >> var test = $.couch.db(db); >> alert("test"+ JSON.stringify(test)); >> >> not working: >> var test = $.couch.allDocs(); >> alert("test"+ JSON.stringify(test)); >> (also did not work for allDbs, info, ) >> >> not working: >> $db = $.couch.db("mydb"); >> var test = $db.allDocs(); >> alert("test"+ JSON.stringify(test)); >> >> not working: >> $.couch.urlPrefix = "http://127.0.0.1:5984";; >> var test = $.couch.allDbs(); >> alert("test"+ JSON.stringify(test)) >> >> >>
