README.rdoc in couch-0.0.1 vs README.rdoc in couch-0.0.2

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-= couch
+= Couch
 
-Description goes here.
+Standalone CouchDB Application Development Suite
 
+With Couch you can easy build a standalone CouchDB application. Couch aims to bring some of the Rails beauty to CouchDB.
+Currently Couch supports Rails style Generators you will love, using the same awesome Thor library used in Rails 3.
+
+
+== Why?
+
+Why do we need a new CouchDB Application Development Suite? We already have the powerful {CouchApp}[http://github.com/couchapp/couchapp].
+
+I miss some beauty. I miss some elegance on the command line.
+
+I know my attempt is almost a small little step towards the beauty I aspire.
+I try to pilfer the most of now: From CouchApp and Ruby on Rails.
+So here we go:
+
+<em>Couch is designed to structure standalone CouchDB application development for maximum application portability.</em>
+
+=== Web development that doesn't hurt
+
+Couch is a set of open-source tools that's optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautyful code by favoring convention over configuration.
+
+=== Write apps using just JavaScript and HTML
+
+Render HTML documents using JavaScript templates run by CouchDB. You'll get parallelism and cacheability, *using only HTML and JavaScript*.
+Building standalone CouchDB applications according to correct principles affords you options not found on other platforms.
+
+
+== What comes next
+
+At the moment, Couch supports generating a scaffold application, pushing to a CouchDB server and pulling from a CouchDB.
+
+The next big steps are:
+
+* support +code+ and +json+ makros to manage shared pieces of code
+* add the powerful mustache.js Template engine (http://github.com/janl/mustache.js)
+* add more code generators to rapidly get you started
+
+
+== I need your help!
+
+The reason why I release that project in such an early state is that I beleave it's you, who invent that desired beauty!
+
+
+== Prerequisites
+
+All you need is Ruby and its packet manager RubyGems. If you do not have a Ruby environment,
+
+    apt-get install ruby rubygems
+
+will probably install the required packages. If you run into any troubles, visit http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/3 for in deapth installation notes for RubyGems, and http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/ for help on installing Ruby.
+
+Of course, Couch relies on CouchDB. You do not have to install your own CouchDB server if you have access to a CouchDB database over the internet, but I recommend it for development.
+If you are new to CouchDB, install it:
+
+    apt-get install couchdb
+
+Take a look at the CouchDB Wiki, where the page http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installation describes the installation for all common systems.
+
+
+== Installation
+
+Couch installation is easy.
+Couch is available as RubyGem, hosted on http://rubygems.org/ (aka Gemcutter) and Rubyforge (http://rubyforge.org).
+Install the gem with
+
+    gem install couch
+
+
+== Gettings started
+
+Once installed, your system will have the brand new +couch+ command.
+So just type
+
+  couch
+
+and relax.
+
+
 == Note on Patches/Pull Requests
  
 * Fork the project.
 * Make your feature addition or bug fix.
-* Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a
-  future version unintentionally.
 * Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history.
-  (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
 * Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.
 
+
 == Copyright
 
-Copyright (c) 2010 Johannes J. Schmidt. See LICENSE for details.
+Copyright (c) 2010 Johannes Jörg Schmidt, TF. See LICENSE for details.