Ember routing example

gistfile1.coffee

# Works against Ember HEAD.
# Note the routing still changes a lot. This might not work tomorrow.

window.App = Ember.Application.create()

App.Router = Ember.Router.extend
  location: 'hash' # hopefully it will auto-pick and support HTML5 in the future

  root: Ember.State.extend
    index: Ember.State.extend
      route: '/'

      connectOutlets: (manager) ->
        manager.transitionTo('elections')

    elections: Ember.State.extend
      route: '/elections'

      index: Ember.State.extend
        route: '/'

        connectOutlets: (manager) ->

      show: Ember.State.extend
        route: '/:election_id'
        modelType: App.Election  # this is an ember-data model, which has an id

        connectOutlets: (manager, election) ->
          console.log(election)

# This auto-instantiates the router class found at App.Router and starts the routing
App.initialize()

I just pulled from master and it's almost working like you describe. On L#14 I have to include the state I want to transition to manager.transitionTo('elections.index') or I get an error "You need to provide an object and key to get".

I've been trying to piece together some working code (from router to view) from both this gist and @wycats one (posted a couple of days ago - https://gist.github.com/2728699) and can't seem to get it right... https://gist.github.com/2791272. If I include:

rootView = Ember.ContainerView.create({
  controller: appController,
  currentViewBinding: 'controller.view'
});
rootView.appendTo('#content');

before the call to appController.connectOutlet(App.UsersView, App.User.find()); the template gets rendered but from what I understood there was a helper called {{outlet}} that I could hook into.

Any thoughts?

Yeah, I'm not sure yet what they even mean by outlet, terminology-wise.

I haven't hooked up controllers and views with my routing yet, but I'm expecting there's some kind of pattern this is meant to be used with. I'll go have a stab at it on Monday night. Maybe some gists or docs will have turned up by then, else I'll ask around on #emberjs.