backboneadapter.js

var BackboneAdapterMethods = {
	hide : function(){
		this.invoke('hide');
	},
	attr : function(map){
		this.invoke('writeAttribute',map);
	},
	text: function() {
		var text = this.map(function(item){
			return item.innerText != undefined ? item.innerText : item.innerHTML.stripTags();
		});
		return text.join(' ');
	},
	html : function(html){
		this.invoke('update',html);
	},
	remove : function(){
		this.invoke('remove');
	},
	find: function(selector) {
		var elements = [];
		this.each(function(item){
			elements.concat(item.select(selector));
		});
		return elements;
	}
	
	
};

Object.extend(Array.prototype,BackboneAdapterMethods);

var BackboneElementMethods = {
	off : Element.stopObserving
};

Element.addMethods(BackboneElementMethods);

Backbone.ajax = function(params) {
    var parameters = {
        method: params.type,
        parameters: params.data,
        contentType: params.contentType,
        onSuccess: function(response) {
            params.success(JSON.parse(response.responseText));
        },
        onFailure: params.error
    };
    new Ajax.Request(params.url, parameters);
};

Backbone.View.prototype._ensureElement = function(){
	if (!this.el)
	{
		var attrs = Object.extend({}, this.attributes);
		Object.extend(attrs,{id:this.id});
		Object.extend(attrs,{'class':this.className});
		this.el = new Element(this.tagName,attrs);
	}
	else
	{
		this.setElement(this.el,false);
	}
}

Backbone.View.prototype.setElement = function(element, delegate) {
  if (this.$el) this.undelegateEvents();
  this.$el = this.el = $(element);

  if (delegate !== false) this.delegateEvents();
  return this;
}

Backbone.View.prototype.delegateEvents = function(events) {
  var delegateEventSplitter = /^(\S+)\s*(.*)$/;
  if (!(events || (events = _.result(this, 'events')))) return this;
  this.undelegateEvents();
  for (var key in events) {
    var method = events[key];
    if (!_.isFunction(method)) method = this[events[key]];
    if (!method) continue;

    var match = key.match(delegateEventSplitter);
    var eventName = match[1], selector = match[2];
    method = _.bind(method, this);
    if (selector === '') {
      this.$el.on(eventName, method);
    } else {
      this.$el.on(eventName, selector, method);
    }
  }
  return this;
}



Backbone.$ = $$;