grunt-couch-data

Synchronizes JSON fixtures with CouchDB

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-couch-data --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-couch-data');

The "couch_data" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named couch_data to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  couch_data: {
    options: {
      dbHost: 'http://localhost:5984/',
      verbose: true
    },
    dev: {
      src: 'fixtures/dev/*.json'
    },
  },
});

Options

options.dbHost

Type: String Default value: None

Specifies the Couch DB server. It must end with a slash.

options.verbose

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Enables or disables verbose output.

Usage Examples

You must specify the .json fixture files, either by providing a files array or by providing a files src array within a particular target.

No target

For a simple setup, just list out your fixture files in the files property.

grunt.initConfig({
  couch_data: {
    options: {
      dbHost: 'http://localhost:5984/',
    },
    files: [ 'fixtures/*.json' ]
  }
});

Target-specific setup

You can have different fixtures loaded based on your target.

grunt.initConfig({
  couch_data: {
    options: {
      dbHost: 'http://localhost:5984/',
    },
    dev: {
      src: [ 'fixtures/dev/*.json' ]
    },
    prod: {
      src: [ 'fixtures/prod/*.json' ]
    }
  }
});

Notes

This currently only works without authentication, so your sever must be in Admin Party mode. This will be changed in a later release to allow for authentication.

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

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