Quick Way to work with Models and Alloy in Appcelerator Titanium

snippet1.js

// set the sync adapter
Alloy.Backbone.sync = function(method, model, opts) { 
    require("alloy/sync/properties").sync(method, model,  opts);
};

snippet2.js

// createing a model now just requires the collection_name field
var User = Model.extend({
    config : {
        adapter : {
            collection_name : 'users'
        }
    }
});

snippet3.js

// extend ALL Collections and add the cleanup function
var Collection = Alloy.Backbone.Collection.extend({
    /**
     * clean up any models from the properties db
     */
    cleanup : function() {
        var regex = new RegExp("^(" + this.config.adapter.collection_name + ")\\-(.+)$");
        var TAP = Ti.App.Properties;
        _.each(TAP.listProperties(), function(prop) {
            var match = prop.match(regex);
            if (match) {
                TAP.removeProperty(prop);
                Ti.API.info('deleting old model ' + prop);
            }
        });
    }
});

snippet4.js

// creating a collection now just requires the collection_name field
var UserCollection = Collection.extend({
    config : {
        adapter : {
            collection_name : 'users'
        }
    }
});

// cleanup all of the old data associated with the collection
new UserCollection().cleanup();