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# Erica



## Making CouchDB development easy



Erica is a tool that helps you to create couchdb design docs,

and web applications (couchapps), and generally get files in and out

of CouchDB.



## Requirements



### Runtime

* Erlang R14B04 or higher with crypto support



### Compiling

* gcc

* [rebar](https://github.com/rebar/rebar)

* git

* erlang-src



#### Installing Dependencies on Debian/Ubuntu



    sudo apt-get install rebar erlang-src erlang-xmerl erlang-parsetools



#### Installing Dependencies on Fedora

    

    sudo yum install erlang-rebar



## Download



* Signed [releases](https://people.apache.org/~dch/dist/tools/)

are available from [dch](https://twitter.com/dch__)'s site.

* Unix users will need to `chmod +x erica` and ensure it is on your PATH.

* Windows users should use `erica.cmd` and simply drop it

into your `%COUCHDB%/bin` directory.



## Installation



To install it from source you will have to clone the repository from

github. Dependencies will be fetched during the build.



    $ git clone git://github.com/benoitc/erica.git



You can also download the latested tarball available on the [download

page](https://github.com/benoitc/erica/downloads):



    $ curl -L -O https://github.com/downloads/benoitc/erica/erica-.tar.gz



Then build the sources:



    $ cd erica

    $ make



Then you can use the generated script **erica** .



To install it on your system, run the command line:



    $ make install



### Upgrade from  the source repository



When you want to upgrade from the source repository, run the following

commands:



    $ git pull --rebase

    $ make upgrade

    $ make install



## Quick Start: Design Docs



So need to make and mange design docs for couchdb?



    # erica create-app

    # cd myapp

    # erica push myapp



Go ahead and create views, shows, lists, etc.



## Quick Start: Webapps



To create a webapp, follow this pattern.



    # erica create-webapp

    # cd myapp

    # erica push myapp



This is an 'attachment first' style couchapp. Anything related to the design doc lives in _ddoc.



After any changes, push it to your couchdb node



    $ erica push http://127.0.0.1:5984/testdb



Then visit the result on



    http://127.0.0.1:5984/testdb/_design/myapp/_rewrite/



That's it.



Note: By default the CouchDB Node uri is 127.0.0.1:5984 so you could

just use the db name in push command line if you want:eri



    $ erica push testdb



## Detailed Usage:



    # erica command



Where available commands are:



    push           [options...] [dir]    dest  push anything to couchdb

    create-webapp  [appid=myapp] ...     Create a webapp. Default:

                                         appid=myapp, lang=javascript

    create-ddoc    [appid=myapp] ...     Create a blank ddoc, Default:

                                         appid=myapp, lang=javascript

    create-app     appid=AppID lang=Lang Create a blank couchapp, Default:

                                         appid=myapp, lang=javascript

    create         template= [vars...]   create an application using a

                                         template

    init                                 initialize a .couchapprc

    clone          [option] source dir   clone a document from couchdb

    browse                               display the erica in the

                                         browser.

    web            port=Port [dir]       launch the web ui

    help                                 Show the program options

    version                              Show version information



And more general options



    $ erica -h

    Usage: erica [-h] [-c] [-v] [-f] [-V] [--is-ddoc ] [--docid ] [--atomic ] [...] 



      -h, --help		Show the program options

      -c, --commands	Show available commands

      -v, --verbose		Be verbose about what gets done

      -f, --force		Force

      -V, --version		Show version information

      --is-ddoc		Tell to push command if you send a design document or not.

      --docid		Set docid with push command

      --atomic		Send attachments inline with push command

      command		Command to run (e.g. push)



### 1 . About the Design Doc



You can use a template to create your design doc.

It will create a simple project that you can use for a

start:



    $ erica create-ddoc appid=myapp lang=javascript

    ==> tmp (create-app)

    Writing myapp/_id

    Writing myapp/language

    Writing myapp/.couchapprc



    $ ls -fla myapp/

    total 24

    drwxr-xr-x   6 benoitc  wheel  204 Jun  7 11:13 .

    drwxrwxrwt  13 root     wheel  442 Jun  7 11:13 ..

    -rw-r--r--   1 benoitc  wheel   18 Jun  7 11:13 .couchapprc

    drwxr-xr-x   2 benoitc  wheel   68 Jun  7 11:13 _attachments

    -rw-r--r--   1 benoitc  wheel   13 Jun  7 11:13 _id

    -rw-r--r--   1 benoitc  wheel   10 Jun  7 11:13 language



Erica has created an _attachments folder in the myapp folder. This is

where you can put all the attachments. You can put your views functions in

`views/viewname/{map,reduce}.js` , shows in `shows` folder, lists in

`lists`, ... See the wiki for more info (soon).



* *_id* is where you set the document id

* *languages* is where you set the language of your application

* *.couchapprc* is where you set some config infos for your app.



Note: **erica** is language agnostic, so if you want to create your couchapp in

coffescript, just replace javascript by coffescript or use the language

you want if an couchapp server exists for it.



### 2. Clone



Did you see an interesting couchapp you want to reuse? Or just working

with a friend on the same couchapp ? With the `clone` command you can

replicate a couchapp on your filesystem, edit it and push the results

after:



    $ erica clone http://127.0.0.1:5984/testdb/_design/myapp



This command will clone the couchapp `myapp` in the `myapp` folder. If

you want to clone it to another folder, just do:



    $ erica clone http://127.0.0.1:5984/testdb/_design/myapp mynewapp



## More



Add an `.ericaignore` file to the root of your app, as a JSON array

of regular expressions of files or folders to be excluded from pushes.



    ["passwords.txt", "^\.ssh", "^\.*"]



When using templates, follow this format



    # erica create template=name



Provided templates are for now:



* web (the template used with the create-web command)

* ddoc (the default create used for create-ddoc command)

* example: a simple couchapp example

* couchapp: a simple template with the good old couchapp javascript library.



You can add your own template in ~/.erica/templates.



## Getting Help



If you have any questions contact us on irc freenode **#couchapp** or on

the mailing-list: http://groups.google.com/group/couchapp .