Getting started with CouchdbKit

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greetings/
├── _design
│   └── greetings
│       └── views
│           └── all
│               └── map.js
└── greetings.py

4 directories, 2 files

greetings_couchdb.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from couchdbkit.loaders import FileSystemDocsLoader
import os
import datetime

from couchdbkit import *

class Greeting(Document):
     author = StringProperty()
     content = StringProperty()
     date = DateTimeProperty()

# server object
server = Server()

# create database
db = server.get_or_create_db("greeting")

# associate Greeting to the db
Greeting.set_db(db)

# create a new greet
greet = Greeting(
    author=u"Rémy",
    content="Welcome to couchdbkit world",
    date=datetime.datetime.utcnow()
)

# save it 
greet.save()

loader = FileSystemDocsLoader('_design')
loader.sync(db, verbose=True)

toto = list(Greeting.view('greetings/all'))

print toto

map.js

function(doc) { 
  if (doc.doc_type == "Greeting") 
   emit(doc._id, doc); 
}