a few weeks ago a question was posed on this list for examples how to use couchDB. i post the 'hello world' for couchDB using the haskell interface - perhaps it helps other to start! a more extensive and complicate example is found at www.maztravel.com/haskell/mySqlToCouchDB.html I created with Futon a db names "first" (i had no luck with names containing a - or a _ , but have not investigated further). the runcouchDB' affects the couchDB at localhost. andrew ps: if there is a better place to document examples? a wiki on haskell.org would be nice and should be available for any project in hackage. ---- {-# LANGUAGE DeriveDataTypeable #-} module Main ( ) where import Database.CouchDB import Data.Data (Typeable) import Text.JSON s1 = JSString $ toJSString "Peter" m1 = makeObj [("FirstName", s1), ("FamilytName", JSString . toJSString $ "Miller")] mydb1 = db "first" -- convert db name to checked couchdb -- problem with "-" or "_" in db names in haskell?? main = do putStrLn "start couchdb tests" (doc, rev) <- runCouchDB' $ newDoc mydb1 m1 -- works return ()