Question

Following these instructions
http://robertogds.com/post/3324511589/howto-backbone-js-using-rails-3

The issue/error is that the content is never saved to the db. Using Firebug it appears that the POST json request is incorrect:
content
“empty todo…”
done
false
text
“test”

Basically, the backbone.js event fires a json update that takes the input data (“test”) and creates a new model attribute “text” instead of updating the “content” data attribute…

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

It appears that the author of that post forgot a few steps. The todos.js file needed to include some changes to make sure the :text variable (in the backbone.js todo example) was changed to :content

for example the setText function

var text = this.model.get('content');

the close function

// Close the `"editing"` mode, saving changes to the todo.
    close: function() {
      this.model.save({content: this.input.val()});
      $(this.el).removeClass("editing");
    },

and the createOnEnter function

// create new **Todo** model persisting it to *localStorage*.
    createOnEnter: function(e) {
      var text = this.input.val();
      if (!text || e.keyCode != 13) return;
      Todos.create({content: text});
      this.input.val('');
    },