Backbone.js and Rails - How to handle params from Backbone models?

Question

In a standard Rails controller, I\'d create a record like this:

@user = User.new(params[:user])

This assumes that the form parameters that come

Answer 1

It's nice when you can have the general Rails forms and Backbone forms match with respect to the root node. That's why in my last application I chose to override the Backbone models' toJSON method.

You could override the global toJSON method as Raimonds Simanovskis suggested. But even the non-DRY way approach isn't so bad. Just one line of boilerplate for each model definition:

// Depends on Underscore.js
User = Backbone.Model.extend({
  toJSON: function() {
    return { user: _.clone( this.attributes ) }
  },
  // Your other methods here
});

Edit: Corrected code sample. Sorry for the errors, I was translating from CoffeeScript to JavaScript.