When I initialize a Backbone or a Javascript app, in a Rails view, I like to populate the template with the records that I am going to need. This is because if I dont populate this records in the view, then I have to fetch the record in the javascript app, so I need another call to the server :(.
I think a good way to produce, your JSON objects is with Jbuilder, because in this way you don’t have to override the “as_json” method. Then if you have a template that returns JSON, you can render it in your view.
The example
json.array!(@milestones) do |json, milestone|
json.(milestone, :id, :name, :due_date)
json.tasks milestone.tasks
end
<%= content_tag "div", class: "milestones",
data: {
milestones: render(template: "api/v1/milestones/index.json")
} do %>
<%= javascript_tag do %>
jQuery(function(){
App.init();
});
<% end %>
<% end %>
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