Niklas Närhinen

Web development with passion

Install Couchdb-Lucene in CircleCI

We at Ecom are using the great CircleCI service for running our integration test suite.

Recently they added support for Apache Couchdb as a service for the test runs.

We have some searches however that are backed by Couchdb-Lucene so we needed a way to integrate test those also. What I found out, is that installing and running couchdb-lucene with user privileges is actually possible.

Here's a few lines of bash to fetch, install and run couchdb-lucene in CircleCI:

Just add that bash script to your circle.yml under checkout -> post