BackBone client with a remote Rails Server

Question

Background:

I use \"rails g scaffold hotel name stars:integer\" to start fast (and insert into the database some records), and write a Backbone client

Answer 1

you've set up your rails code so that it requires a call to /hotels.json in order to return json, but your backbone code is calling /hotels only.

the easiest way to fix this is to have a separate api for json data, than for html pages. for example: /hotels returns html and /api/hotels return json. see Ryan Bate's Railscasts for an example of this (paid) http://railscasts.com/episodes/323-backbone-on-rails-part-1

another option would be to change your Backbone models / collections so that they append the ".json" to the end of your urls. for example:

Backbone.Model.extend({
  url: function(){
    var url;
    if (this.isNew()){
      url = "/hotels/" + this.id + ".json";
    } else {
      url = "/hotels.json";
    }
    return url;
  }
});

There are likely other options as well. These are just two that came up off the top of my head.