Controllers are a little big of a black sheep in Ember. At one point people thought controllers were going away, and were told not to use them. Since it's unclear what the state of routeable components are, controllers are very much here to stay until that story unfolds. As such, this gist aims to provide some clarity on what controllers are (or should be), and how to use them.
Nope. ObjectController and ArrayController are deprecated, but the Controller class exists and supersedes them. Controllers sit between your routes and the top level templates used to render those routes. While a route may be the place that obtains your data, a controller is the abstraction on top of that data that you can use to massage the data for presentational purposes. My favorite example of a controller is to combine two lists into a single array for loopin