Couchbase Sync Gateway - Installation, configuration and getting started documentation

[Brad Gronek]

I am trying to install, configure and get started with Couchbase Sync Gateway.  I've been through the Mobile site documentation, the git documentation and am now resorting to building from source.  

While there is a nice simple path for users to install and configure Couchbase, no such thing exists for Sync Gateway.  

Just as a bit of feedback, the documentation is really lacking here.

Installing the deb package in Ubuntu does not configure any service scripts for running the system.  Furthermore, there is no real explanation as to how to use the gateway once it gets running as the current docs skip straight to writing sync functions.  

I look forward to getting this up and running!  Many thanks for your efforts as this seems to be a very compelling platform you are building here.

[Jens Alfke]

On Aug 9, 2014, at 8:34 AM, Brad Gronek <bgr...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am trying to install, configure and get started with Couchbase Sync Gateway.  I've been through the Mobile site documentation, the git documentation and am now resorting to building from source.  

I don't think that will help you. Building it just produces the single 'sync_gateway' executable, which is the same thing you'd have downloaded from our website.

Installing the deb package in Ubuntu does not configure any service scripts for running the system.  

We're working on some scripts to manage the gateway as a service. But it's very easy to run; it doesn't have to live anywhere in particular and can be started with a few command-line options.

Furthermore, there is no real explanation as to how to use the gateway once it gets running as the current docs skip straight to writing sync functions.  

There are definitely a lot of gaps in the documentation still.

The next things to read about would be user accounts, then channels.

—Jens