Ember router: how to use transitionTo

Question

I have a link that looks like this

index.html#/calendar/year/month

This is how I set up my routes:

App.Router.map(function(         


        

Answer 1

Oposite from what I said in the comments, this can actually be done without the need of nested routes, using the Route#serialize.

I've made this fiddle (demo here) with a scenario similar to what you described:

In the application, I'm storing the month and year arguments

window.App = Ember.Application.create({
    title: 'Cool App',
    calendar: { 
        month: new Date().getMonth()+1, 
        year: new Date().getFullYear() 
    }
});

Defined the routes

App.Router.map(function() {
    this.route("home");
    this.resource('calendar', { path: 'calendar/:year/:month'});
});

In the calendar route, I've added the serialize method, to translate the properties in obj to the app, then I connected with 3rd party lib in setupController to get the days property and set its content.

App.CalendarRoute = Em.Route.extend({
    activate: function() {
        $(document).attr('title','Events')
    },
    serialize: function(obj) {
        return {
            year: obj.year, month: obj.month
        }
    },
    setupController: function(controller, model) {
        var obj = {
            days: calendar.getDaysInMonth(model.month, model.year),
            year: model.year,
            month: model.month
        };
        controller.set('content', obj);
    }
});

In Handlebars, using a {{linkTo}} helper, I am passing the calendar property defined in my App class as the argument:

{{#linkTo calendar App.calendar tagName="li"}}
    
        Calendar
    
{{/linkTo}}

This will generate a link to ~/#/calendar/2013/4