Using an older ember-data with ember-cli-shims 0.1.0: ember-cli-shims 0.1.0 no longer shims ember-data because ember-data 2.3 is module-native. If you want to use an older version of ember-data though, you can shim it yourself

ember-cli-build.js

  //...
  app.import('vendor/ember-data-shims.js');
  //...

ember-data-shims.js

// vendor/ember-data-shims.js
(function() {
  /* globals define, DS */

  function generateModule(name, values) {
    define(name, [], function() {
      'use strict';

      return { 'default': values };
    });
  }

  function processEmberDataShims() {
   var shims = {
     'ember-data':                          DS,
     'ember-data/model':                    DS.Model,
     'ember-data/serializers/rest':         DS.RESTSerializer,
     'ember-data/serializers/active-model': DS.ActiveModelSerializer,
     'ember-data/serializers/json':         DS.JSONSerializer,
     'ember-data/serializers/json-api':     DS.JSONAPISerializer,
     'ember-data/adapters/json-api':        DS.JSONAPIAdapter,
     'ember-data/adapters/rest':            DS.RESTAdapter,
     'ember-data/adapter':                  DS.Adapter,
     'ember-data/adapters/active-model':    DS.ActiveModelAdapter,
     'ember-data/store':                    DS.Store,
     'ember-data/transform':                DS.Transform,
     'ember-data/attr':                     DS.attr,
     'ember-data/relationships':            [DS.hasMany, DS.belongsTo]
    };

    for (var moduleName in shims) {
      generateModule(moduleName, shims[moduleName]);
    }
  }

  processEmberDataShims();
})();