If you are like me, you like your code and at best everything else about your
app to be versioned. This makes setting up a new development environment quick,
and even more important reproducible. So one thing which always bothered me was
setting up external code outside of the application to generate Couchbase views,
since those views are build using JavaScript, and by default live in the
web interface, far away from my application code. If you want to know more about
them watch the Couchbase 103 – Views and
Map-Reduce by the way.
Since those JavaScript functions are code which is closely related to my app, I
like to keep it inside as well, and provide a task to actually set them up for
the given environments. The following quick gist provides a rake task to do
this, adding all views in config/couchbase_views to Couchbase.
https://gist.github.com/sideshowcoder/10465780.js
This works great together with dotenv to provide the connection details via
environment variables, but can also depend on any other way to
set up the database connection easily.
Code from the sideline 