Following along with the couchdb peepcode, I received the following error:
MissingSourceFile (no such file to load -- couchrest/helper/file_manager):
/app/models/basic_model.rb:43:in `db'
The reason for the error is that the FileManager class is no longer a part of the couchrest gem. It's functionality is being pushed out to a stand alone script called couchapp which manages putting a directory structure into a design doc. Although there is a ruby gem for couchapp on github, it is in the process of getting left behind. The best version of couchapp is now the python version which can be installed doing a
sudo easy_install couchapp
For now though, I got an error from macports so I have been using the ruby version of couchapp just to be able to move on:
sudo gem install jchris-couchapp
So now there should be a utility couchapp which you can run from the command line. Next, in the self.db method in app/models/basic_model.rb replace
file_manager = CouchRest::FileManager.new(File.basename(full_url_to_database)) file_manager.push_views(File.join(Rails.root, "db", "views"))with
system("couchapp push #{full_url_to_database}")
and continue following along with the peepcode.
