http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/trunk/share/www/script/jquery.couch.js

Such a library could be folded (npi) into futon to make your exercise above a little easier as well as put it into the hands of everyone who has couchdb. Futon could even use it to include a text field within the page giving a command line interface apart from firebug…

I had forgotten that Firebug used to not have the extra step to load responses. I would like it to work the old way for me. I don’t see why it’s not configurable. I hope Firebug hasn’t gone down the path of insisting on a simple UI at the cost of customizability like Gnome has. If it has, perhaps a fork or an extension that interacts with the Firebug extension will be in order.

Thanks for telling me about the Same Origin Policy. I seem to remember hearing that phrase before, but it didn’t come to mind when I was googling for information on the matter. I’m going to try getting my custom JavaScript environment working with CouchDB now that I know this.

Oh, that Firebug change annoys me so much where it doesn’t load the POST response for you. At work i actually went back to the previous version for exactly that reason.

I believe the AJAX problem you had from the Merb project is to do with the AJAX “Same Origin Policy” to stop you calling pages on another server. I didn’t realise it prevents you going across ports on the same server though!

It is easily overcome by doing an AJAX request to a proxy page on your own site which does something like this:

response = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse(CGI.escape(params[:url])))
render :text => response

I’m really excited to see where you go with Merb and making an application which uses CouchDB directly! :)