I like using this structure: rails-app/ –app/ –views/ –js/ –app/ –test/ –Gruntfile.js –public Here’s how I set it up: rails new rails-app cd rails-app/app/views mkdir js cd js yeoman init ember Then edit Gruntfile.js to change “output: ‘dist’” to “output: ‘../../../public’” After that, “yeoman build” or “yeoman build:dist” will output to the Rails /public folder. … Read more
There seems to be some confusion about what Router#navigate does exactly, I think. Without any options set it will update the URL to the fragment provided. E.g. router.navigate(‘todo/4/edit’) will update the URL to #todo/4 AND will create a browser history entry for that URL. No route handlers are run. However, setting trigger:true will update the … Read more
My shop uses .handlebars, along with Require.js and Alex Sexton’s require-handlebars plug-in, and it all works without issue. The far more common suffix however, and the default one in that plug-in I just mentioned, is .hbs (presumably because .hbs is a 3-character extension not already taken by another file type). You can for example use … Read more
There is the “route” event on the Router: http://backbonejs.org/#Events-catalog “route” (router, route, params) — Fired by history (or router) when any route has been matched. This allows you to bind to specific routes. If you want to fire a handler after any route, bind to “route”, and the route will be the first argument: myRouter.on(“route”, … Read more
In case anyone else is looking for a solution to this problem like I was, I’m posting what I ended up doing. If you’re using the boilerplate backbone.js, then you will have an initialize() function in router.js. I modified my initialize() function to look like the following: initialize = function () { var app_router; app_router … Read more
The following should work: var AdventureBooks = new Books(); AdventureBooks.url=”/books/adventure”;
If you want to access to passed options – just save them: initialize: function (options) { this.options = options || {}; } If you use ES6: initialize (options = {}) { this.options = options; } If you want to save passed options for all Backbone.View‘s you can override constructor like ncksllvn suggested below.
The easiest way to do this is to call .reset()[docs] on the collection. Calling collection.reset() without passing any models as arguments will empty the entire collection. i.e. collection.reset();
In my ears this sounds a bit on the complex side, at least to start with. Backbone.sync will already report errors that you can catch in your models .save() method: this.mymodel.save(/* … */, {success: function(model, result, xhr)…, error: function(model, xhr, options)…} (docs). If your serverside follows HTTP specs well, the error code is already provided … Read more
Simplest way: var cloned = new Backbone.Collection(original.toJSON()); where original is the collection to clone. Could always then extend Backbone’s Collection to add clone support w or w/o inheritance support.