Rails3-backbone-coffeescript

This is an example rails 3 app built with backbone.js, coffeescript and mongoDB (using mongoid)

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Dependencies

1. Ruby 1.9.2
2. Rails 3
3. Coffeescript 1.0
4. mongoDB (any recent stable version should work, we use 1.8)

Using rvm is recommended

Project layout

The most interesting part of the project exists inside the app/coffeescripts folder. Its broken down into 4 main parts

1. lib - javascript library files to use through out the application
2. Controllers dir - this is where our backbone controllers live
3. Model dir - this is where backbone models and collections are defined
4. Views - backbone views (widgets)
5. templates - handlebar.js templates to be used by our backbone views