iron_hide-storage-couchdb_adapter

IronHide::Storage::CouchdbAdapter

A CouchDB adapter for the IronHide authorization library.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'iron_hide-storage-couchdb_adapter'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install iron_hide-storage-couchdb_adapter

Setting up a CouchDB server

Assuming that you don't have a CouchDB server, this project comes with a few helper Rake tasks.

Setup a local Couchdb server

The best resource for getting started with CouchDB is http://guide.couchdb.org/

Using brew:

brew install couchdb
couchdb # Starts the server

Setup the server for use with IronHide

To install the helper Rake tasks:

# Rakefile
require 'rake'
require 'iron_hide/couchdb_tasks'

To create a new database, either use the HTTP API, Futon, or this simple Rake task:

bundle exec rake iron_hide:create_db\['http://127.0.0.1:5984/rules'\]

To upload some rules to this database:

bundle exec rake iron_hide:load_rules\['/absolute/path/file.json','http://127.0.0.1:5984/rules'\]

Note: Required step Setup the required views

bundle exec iron_hide:rake create_views\['http://127.0.0.1:5984/rules'\]

Usage

require 'iron_hide'
require 'iron_hide/storage/couchdb_adapter'

IronHide.config do |c|
    c.adapter          = :couchdb
    c.namespace        = 'TestApp'
    c.couchdb_server   = 'http://127.0.0.1:5984' # Default
    c.couchdb_database = 'rules' # Default
end

Contributing

1. Fork it ( http://github.com//iron_hide-storage-couchdb_adapter/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

Further Reading

• Tim Anglade http://www.slideshare.net/timanglade/couchdb-ruby-youre-doing-it-wrong

TODO

• Caching
• Tests