Saving nested objects with Rails, backbone.js, and accepts_nested_attributes_for

Question

I\'m using Rails, backbone.js (learning this now). Let\'s say you have two models, Car and Engine.

var Car = Backbone.Model.extend({
  initialize: function(         


        

Answer 1

Very helpful. I was working with a similar situation, and this example did not work for me at first. In my example I have a has_many / belongs_to relation. For example a car has_many :tires.

The problem I encountered was that the tires_attributes needed to be nested INSIDE of the car json, not adjacent to it. I ended up with something like this:

toJSON: function(){

  json = {car : this.attributes};
  json.car.tires_attributes = this.get('tires').toJSON();
  return json;

}

Hope this helps.