Backbone.js frontend with RESTful Rails backend?

Question

I started in the web development world with PHP, and then Rails in the recent few years. Since then I\'ve been doing all my web projects in Rails.

Recently there seems

Answer 1

It is my opinion that contemporary web applications are moving towards this model of having RESTful back-end and all the view interactions coded in front-end. These free video tutorials from Joe Zim:

http://www.joezimjs.com/javascript/introduction-to-backbone-js-part-1-models-video-tutorial/

helped me understand backbone and how it can simplify templating and view renders.