= BasicModel

* http://github.com/topfunky/basic_model (url)

== DESCRIPTION:

A very thin wrapper around CouchRest, for use with CouchDB.

== FEATURES/PROBLEMS:

* Usable with Rails in place of ActiveRecord (for forms and URLs)

== SYNOPSIS:

Subclass BasicModel. See the rdoc in basic_model.rb for examples.

  class Event < BasicModel
  
    def default_attributes
      {:some => "defaults"}
    end
    
    def on_update
      # Process @attributes before saving
    end
  
  end

== REQUIREMENTS:

* jchris-couchrest gem
* RestClient from Adam Wiggins of Heroku

== INSTALL:

* sudo gem install jchris-couchrest -a http://gems.github.com

== LICENSE:

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2008 Topfunky Corporation

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