[erlang-questions] How to access CouchDB?

[Benoit Chesneau]

not sure if it can help but you can use
http://github.com/benoitc/couchcwhich abstract the internal couchdb
api .

- benoitc

On Friday, August 9, 2013, Yves S. Garret wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a small database that's running right now in CouchDB, it's called
> sample_database.  What I'd
> like to do is to read, create, delete, update documents and run some of
> the views inside from an
> Erlang app.  I looked online and found this example:
>
> http://www.softwarepassion.com/importing-data-to-couchdb-java-ruby-and-erlang-way/
>
> From that, I proceeded to make the following little script:
> -module(test).
>
> -import(queue,[in/1,out/1,new/0]).
> -export([start/0]).
> -include("../couch_db.hrl").
>
> -define(ADMIN_USER_CTX, {user_ctx, #user_ctx{roles = [<<"_admin">>]}}).
>
> start() ->
>   io:format("Hello world!~n~n"),
>
>   couch_db:open(<<"sample_database">>, [?ADMIN_USER_CTX]).
>
> However, when I run this, I get the following error:
> 18> test:start().
> Hello world!
>
> ** exception error: undefined function couch_db:open/2
>
> It's obvious I'm not including a library of some sort.  I'm curious how I
> can connect to my little
> database in the simplest way possible just to start with.  Has anyone done
> this before?
>
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