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A Backbone.js demo app (Sinatra Backend)

Oct 16 2010

Updates

• 04/10/2011 - Updated application.js and application.rb thanks to @rebo's comments

In this article, I will walk through some simple steps to get a [demo app][2] up and running with [Backbone.js][3] and [Sinatra][4] on [Heroku][5].

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App.AccountEditRoute = Ember.Route.extend({
  setupController: function(controller) {
    controller.set('content', this.get('currentUser'));
  }
});

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# RSpec 2.0 syntax Cheet Sheet by http://ApproachE.com

# defining spec within a module will automatically pick Player::MovieList as a 'subject' (see below)
module Player
	describe MovieList, "with optional description" do
		  
	  it "is pending example, so that you can write ones quickly"
	  
	  it "is already working example that we want to suspend from failing temporarily" do
		pending("working on another feature that temporarily breaks this one")

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module Jekyll

  class CategoryIndex < Page
    def initialize(site, base, dir, category)
      @site = site
      @base = base
      @dir = dir
      @name = 'index.html'
      self.process(@name)
      self.read_yaml(File.join(base, '_layouts'), 'category_index.html')

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	private String createShopSearchQuery() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, InvalidKeyException, UnsupportedEncodingException {
		String jsonAction = "http://api.ravelry.com/shops/search.json?";
		DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'hh:mm:ss.SSSZ");
		Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
		String timestamp = df.format(now.getTime());
		String searchTerm = "yarn"; 
		int shop_type_id = 1;
		
		String query = jsonAction;
		query += "access_key=" + urlEncode(ACCESS_KEY);