0.4.2
November 16, 2013
* Optionally return documents and query results as hashmaps with symbolized keys
Example:
 Couchdb.find_by({:database => 'contacts', :email => 'nancy@mail.com'} ,auth_session, symbolize_keys: true))  
 # => [{:_id =>"Nancy", :_rev =>"1-d15a83d2a23b495c19df2595b636ecc8", :firstname =>"Nancy", :lastname =>"Lee",
 #  :phone =>"347-808-3734", :email =>"nancy@mail.com", :gender =>"female"}]
And
 Couchdb.find_by({:database => 'contacts', :email => 'nancy@mail.com'} , auth_session, symbolize_keys: true)  

 # => [{:_id=>"Nancy", :_rev=>"1-d15a83d2a23b495c19df2595b636ecc8", :firstname =>"Nancy", :lastname =>"Lee",
 #  :phone =>"347-808-3734", :email =>"nancy@mail.com", :gender =>"female"}] 
 
This works for view document results and also works for all finders and queries. See documentation for details. 

0.4.1
August 23,2013
* Changed bind address to require prefix (http:// or https://)
Example: 
 Couchdb.address = "http://whisperservers.cloudant.com" 
See documentation for details

=0.4.0
June 9, 2013
* added ability to find documents by multiple keys
Example:
 keys = {:gender => 'male',:age => '34'}
 Couchdb.find_by_keys({:database => 'friends', :keys => keys})
This will return all documents in the friends database with gender = male and age = 34
* added the ability to count documents by multiple keys 
Example:
 keys = {:gender => 'male',:age => '40'}
 count = Couchdb.count_by_keys({:database => 'friends', :keys => keys})
This will return the number of documents in the friends database with gender = male and age = 40.
See documentation for details.
 

=0.3.4
June 2, 2013
* added options for manipulating query results, the options available are limit, skip, descending, startkey, endkey
Example
 options = {:skip => 10,:limit => 20}
 Couchdb.find_by({:database => 'contacts', :gender => 'female'},auth_session, options)
This will skip the first 10 results and return the next 20 that match the key :gender => 'female'

Another example
 options = {:startkey => "53000", :endkey => "99000",:limit => 20}
 Couchdb.find_by({:database => 'employees', :salary => ''},auth_session, options)
This will return all employees with salary between 53000 and 99000.

Direct view query: 
   view = { :database => "employees", 
          :design_doc => 'salary_finder', 
            :view => 'find_by_salary'}
 options = {:startkey => "53000", :endkey => "99000"}
 Couchdb.find view, auth_session,key=nil, options
This will also return all employees with salary between 53000 and 99000.
See leanback documentation for details.
  
=0.3.3
May 26, 2013
* Added ability to count the number of documents in a database by a specified key.
Example: 
 Couchdb.count({:database => 'contacts', :gender => 'female'},auth_session) 
 # => 8
This will count the number of documents with gender = 'female'
See leanback documentation for details.

=0.3.2
December 01, 2012
* Fixed issues with invalid JSON on CouchDB 1.2.0

=Leanback 0.3.1
December 5,2011
* Added ability to change password for non-admin users.

=Leanback 0.3.0
November 20,2011
* Added CouchDB Security features: working with admin and non-admin users, authentication, adding security objects to databases. See documentation for details.

November 9,2011:-
* Added support for couchDB configuration API. It's now possible to change/modify/delete any couchDB configuration settings with Leanback. README will soon be updated with details.
  

November 3, 2011:-
* Changed all the syntax for working with documents (creating, editing, updating and deleting documents now use a new syntax) See README for the change. Document::Module has been removed, it's methods are now part of Couchdb::Module. 
    

=Leanback 0.2.7
August 4, 2011:-
* Added ability to Query a permanent view and create it on the fly from a json file, if it doesn't already exist and then return the values
Example:
     view = {:database => 'contacts',
         :design_doc => 'my_views',
          :view => 'get_emails',
           :json_doc => '/path/to/my_views.json'}

     Couchdb.find_on_fly(view)
The above will query the view and add it to the database if it doesn't already exist and still return the values. 
See README for details

=Leanback 0.2.6
August 3, 2011:-
* Added ability to delete documents without having to retrieve the _rev revision number
Example:
 doc = {:database => 'contacts', :doc_id => 'James'}
 Document.delete doc
The above will delete the document with id 'James'. See README for details. 

=Leanback 0.2.5
August 2, 2011:-
* Added dynamic updates for documents. This makes it easy to update documents without deleting old fields or having to track the _rev number. 
To update a document now:
 data = {"age" => "53" }
   doc = { :database => 'contacts', :doc_id => 'john', :data => data}   
   Document.update doc 
This will update the document and change the John's age to 53. See README for details

=Leanback 0.2.4
July 20, 2011:-
* find_by(database,key) has a bug in version 0.2.3, please use version 0.2.4 instead

=Leanback 0.2.3
July 19, 2011:-
* Added better error handling all database operations now raise a CouchdbException when something goes wrong. It's now easy to track exceptions.

 begin 	
  Couchdb.create 'contacts'
 rescue => e
  puts "Error message: " + e.to_s
  puts "Error value: " + e.error
 end 
 # => Error message: CouchDB: Error - file_exists. Reason - The database could not be created, the file already exists.
      Error value: file_exists

See README for details

=Leanback 0.2.2
July 13, 2011:-
* No need to call add_finder() method directly anymore. find_by() now adds a finder index to the database if one doesn't already exist.
Example:
The method:
 Couchdb.find_by( :database => 'contacts', :email => 'nancy@mail.com')  
will add the finder to the database if one doesn't already exist. No need to call  
 Couchdb.add_finder(:database => 'contacts', :key => 'email')