Connect to an IrisCouch database from Node.js, save a new document and retrieve it back again.

server.js

var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, http_res) {
  http_res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
  var response = '';

  var cradle = require('cradle');
  var connection = new(cradle.Connection)('https://subdomain.iriscouch.com', 443, {
      auth: { username: 'username', password: 'password' }
  });

  var db = connection.database('database_name');
  db.save('document_key', {
      name: 'A Funny Name'
  }, function (err, res) {
      if (err) {
          // Handle error
          response += ' SAVE ERROR: Could not save record!!\n';
      } else {
          // Handle success
          response += ' SUCESSFUL SAVE\n';
      }
      db.get('document_key', function (err, doc) {
          response += ' DOCUMENT: ' + doc + '\n';
          http_res.end(response);
      });
  });
}).listen(8071);