CouchDB snippet:

gistfile1.js

// Nicked from: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/cloudant/~3/3sqjw_b2Ekg/make-it-easy
// Dependencies: JQuery and sag.js (http://www.saggingcouch.com/)
$(function() {
  // since I want to work locally (but use Cloudant data), I've set up a reverse proxy
  // more on reverse proxy: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Apache_As_a_Reverse_Proxy
  // use sag.js to connect
  var user_db = 'my-Cloudant-database-name';
  var couch = sag.server('my-server'); // localhost
  couch.setDatabase(user_db);

  //  capture the search form submission
  $('form.search').submit(function(e){
    //  kill default action
    e.preventDefault();
    // get the value of the search input
    var query = $('#last').val();
    //  get data via sag.js
    couch.get({
      //  query my Cloudant search index (see above) and account for wildcards (partial string searches)
      url: '/_design/people/_search/searchByName?include_docs=true&q=' + query + '*',
      callback: function(resp, succ) {
        // vars for iterating over the results
        var rows = '', i;
        //  create the rows for my table
        for(i in resp.body.rows) {
          rows += '<tr><td>';
          rows += '<a href="#" class="view-detail data-cloudant-id="' + resp.body.rows[i].id + '">';
          rows += resp.body.rows[i].doc.first + ' ' + resp.body.rows[i].doc.last;
          rows += '</a></td></tr>';
        }
        //  drop the rows into a table and append it to the results container in my interface
        $('#results').html('<table id="people" class="table table-striped"><tbody>' + rows + ' </tbody></table>');
      }
    });
  });
});