# Stuffing - A plugin to use CouchDB with ActiveRecord models

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/stuffing-a-plugin-to-use-couchdb-with-activerecord-models/160638>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 18, 2009, 11:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/stuffing-a-plugin-to-use-couchdb-with-activerecord-models/160638 "2009-02-18T11:31:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![paul](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@paul](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paul)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 11:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/stuffing-a-plugin-to-use-couchdb-with-activerecord-models/160638/1 "2009-02-18T11:31:58Z")

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Hey,

Just a heads up on anyone wanting a quick way to start playing with  
CouchDB ([http://couchdb.apache.org/](http://couchdb.apache.org/)) and Rails without leaving the  
comfort of ActiveRecord.

Stuffing is a Rails plugin that I wrote to let you access a CouchDB  
document directly within your ActiveRecord model.

The plugin is on GitHub:

> **[GitHub - paulca/stuffing: A Rails plugin to read and write CouchDB documents via...](https://github.com/paulca/stuffing/tree/master)**
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> master

I posted a short video screencast intro here:  
[http://www.pabcas.com/feeling/a-short-video-introduction-to-stuffing](http://www.pabcas.com/feeling/a-short-video-introduction-to-stuffing)

and some more info here:  
[http://www.pabcas.com/feeling/stuffing-couchdb-into-rails](http://www.pabcas.com/feeling/stuffing-couchdb-into-rails)

Full information in the README which you can see on Github.

I’d love any feedback / ideas you’d care to share,

Cheers,

Paul