Django with CouchDB Backend / TypeError: doc database required to save document

[Claude Falbriard]

Dear colleagues, 

I'm a newcomer to Django and CouchDB. My preliminary testing of the couchdbkit via Python went just fine, but when trying to define it as a Django backend, I get an error (see below). 

Is there a primer or tutorial available that describes how setup a Django with CouchDB? Anything missing? 

Hints are welcome.  

My steps that generated the error:    

mkdir djangoapps

cd djangoapps

django-admin.py startproject aqua

cd aqua 

python manage.py startapp langs

edit settings.py

added INSTALLED_APPS = (

    ...

    'couchdbkit.ext.django',

    'langs',

added: 

COUCHDB_DATABASES = (

    ('langs', 'http://127.0.0.1:5984/languages'),

)

edit models.py

edit views.py

python manage.py syncdb

I'm using the sample published on this link: 

http://leok.me/2013/05/02/what-you-need-to-know-couchdb-django.html

python manage.py shell

>>> from langs.models import Language

>>> l = Language()

>>> l.name = "python"

>>> l.description = "the best lang"

>>> l.license = "I don't care"

>>> l.save()

generates error at this line: 

>>> l.save()

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>

  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\couchdbkit\schema\base.py", line 431, in s

ave

    db = self.get_db()

  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\couchdbkit\schema\base.py", line 422, in g

et_db

    raise TypeError("doc database required to save document")

TypeError: doc database required to save document

Any hint is welcome. 

Regards, 

Claude