An example of marking up division lists using Sinatra and CouchDB.

• report.xml - the original provided demo file
• example.html - an example of the same content in HTML 5
• default.css - CSS file to make example.html a bit cleaner

To get this to work, you're going to need CouchDB, couchdb-lucene and couchapp. If you already have those, feel free to skip past the instally stuff

If you're on a Mac, CouchDBX is your best bet (or if you really must tinker, try this at your own risk); otherwise the nice folk over at CouchOne should have something for you

CouchApp is a great way to package up the inner workings of your CouchDB - views, fulltext indexes, that sort of thing - without pushing individual documents around by hand. Follow the installation instructions in the official README file

The search engine bit. Reasonably painful to set up, but worth the effort.

1. Install Maven 2 if you don't already have it (good news fellow Mac-heads, nothing to do here). Everyone else you need to go over here
2. Grab the couchdb-lucene code from the github repository (hit the download source button over in the top right)
3. Unpack the couchdb-lucene code, open up a Terminal/iTerm/Command prompt window and navigate to the right directory
4. Type mvn
5. Make some tea, this could take a while
6. Navigate to the target subfolder and unpack the zip file you find in there
7. Rename the resulting folder couchdb-lucene and move it to where you want your couchdb-lucene app to live (I've put mine in /usr/local)
8. Locate your CouchDB local.ini file (if you're using CouchDBX you need to right-click on CouchDBX in your Applications folder and select "Show Package Contents", from there it's in Contents / Resources / couchdbx-core / couchdb_VERSION / etc / couchdb)
9. Hack in the following:

   
    [external]
    fti=/path/to/python /path/to/couchdb-lucene/tools/couchdb-external-hook.py
        
    [httpd_db_handlers]
    _fti = {couch_httpd_external, handle_external_req, <<"fti">>}
    

10. Under [couchdb] change os_process_timeout as follows:

    os_process_timeout=60000 ; increase the timeout from 5 seconds.

11. Save the ini file and restart CouchDB

1. Start CouchDB (if it isn't already running)
2. Grab a Terminal window and navigate to the db folder
3. Run couchapp push http://localhost:5984/divisionlists
4. Run rake load_data

http://localhost:5984/divisionlists/_fti/_design/data/main?q=Roman

http://localhost:5984/divisionlists/_fti/_design/data/main?q=constituency:Essex

http://localhost:5984/divisionlists/_fti/_design/data/main?q=title:Lord

http://localhost:5984/divisionlists/_fti/_design/data/main?q=name:Christie

http://localhost:5984/divisionlists/_fti/_design/data/main?q=name:David

http://localhost:5984/divisionlists/_fti/_design/data/main?q=name:%22Winston%20Spencer%20Churchill%22

http://localhost:5984/divisionlists/_fti/_design/data/main?q=aye:%22winston%20spencer%20churchill%22

http://localhost:5984/divisionlists/_fti/_design/data/main?q=noe:%22winston%20spencer%20churchill%22