basic controller inheritance

application.js

var Controller = require('base_controller');
var Application = module.exports = Controller.extend(function Application(init) {
    init.before(function protectFromForgeryHook(ctl) {
        ctl.protectFromForgery('13cf581adb4cd3c1cccce3604a6c044215f21679');
    });
});

base_controller.js

module.exports = function Controller () {};

Controller.extend = function(initializer) {
    var self = this;
    initializer = initializer || function(){};
    var controller = function(init) {
        self.call(this, init);
        return initializer.call(this, init);
    }
    Object.keys(this).forEach(function(key) {
        controller[key] = self[key];
    });
    controller.prototype = Object.create(this.prototype);
    return controller;
}
Controller.action = function(name, fn) {
    this.prototype[name] = fn;
}

users.js

var Application = require('./application');

var UserController = module.exports = Application.extend(function (init) {
    init.before(loadUser, {
        only: ['show', 'edit', 'update', 'destroy']
    });
});

UserController.action('new', function (c) {
    this.title = 'New user';
    this.user = new (c.User);
    c.render();
});
//I don't really like prefixing everything with c.  I would probably mod my controllers to look like: 
UserController.action('new', function (c) { with(c) {
    this.title = 'New user';
    this.user = new (User);
    render();
}});
...

users_controller.js

//for comparison
load('application');

before(loadUser, {
    only: ['show', 'edit', 'update', 'destroy']
});

action('new', function () {
    this.title = 'New user';
    this.user = new User;
    render();
});
...