I am using backbone-tastypie, but I am having the toughest time getting it to work properly. In Tastypie, I am using ApiKeyAuthentication for my resources, so every ajax req
Just for future readers of this post, when you do a model.destroy() you can't pass any data because the delete request doesn't have a body, see this issue for more info:
https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/issues/789