AJAX models

tweet.js

function Tweet(params) {
  params = params || {};
  this.user = params.user;
  this.content = params.content;
}

Tweet.recent = function(limit) {
  var limit = limit || 50;
  return $.get('/tweets/recent', {
    dataType: 'json',
    data: {limit: limit},
  });
};

Tweet.search = function(q) {
  // TODO
};

new Tweet();
new Tweet({user_id: 234, content: 'I just pooped'});

function format(tweet) {
  return '<div class="tweet">' + tweet.content + '<cite>' + tweet.username + '</cite></div>';
}

$(document).ready(function() {
  Tweet.recent(50)
    .done(function(tweets) {
      for (var i = 0; i != tweets.length; ++i) {
        $(document.body).append(format(tweets[i]));
      }
    })
    .fail(function(error) { alert(error); });
});

/*

class Tweet < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user
  has_many :hashtags

  def self.recent(limit=50)
    order(created_at: :descending).limit(limit)
  end
end

*/