Getting rid of some cruft in backbone

backbone_extensions.js.coffee

# the current setup, for conveience, removes all capital letters from class names, which is not the best.
# this could be fixed, but carefully.

# remove the default ensure element, we handle this in Base
Backbone.View.prototype._ensureElement = () ->

class ZenBucket.Views.Base extends Backbone.View
  initialize: (render) ->

  # set up sensible defaults
    unless @el
      @el = '#' + @className()
    unless @$el
      @$el = $(@el)

    unless @template
      @template = JST[@resource_className().toLowerCase() + '/' + @className()]

    unless @callbacks
      @callbacks =
        {
        success: _.bind((collection, response) ->
              console.log "generic success callback on, #{this}:", arguments
              @render()
            , this)
        error: _.bind(() ->
              console.log "generic error callback on, #{this}:", arguments
            , this)
        }

    unless render == false
      @render()

  className: () ->
  # see: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/494
    @__proto__.constructor.name

  resource_className: () ->
  #todo: move to resource?
    @resource().__proto__.constructor.name

  resource: () ->
    @collection || @model

  json: (json) ->
    json = {} unless json
    #    resource_name = @resource_className().toLowerCase()
    #    unless json[resource_name]
    json[@resource_className().toLowerCase()] ||= @resource().toJSON()
    json

  fetch: () ->
    @resource().fetch(@callbacks)

  filled_tmpl: (options) ->
    console.log "updated options (filled tmpl)", @json(options)
    @template(@json(options))

  render: (options)->
    options = {} unless options
    @$el.html(@filled_tmpl(options))
    this


class ZenBucket.Models.Base extends Backbone.Model


class ZenBucket.Collections.Base extends Backbone.Collection
  initialize: ()->
    name = @__proto__.constructor.name
    # such as goal
    ZenBucket.collection_instances[name] = this

    unless @url
      @url = '/' + name

ZenBucket.collection = (collection_name) ->
  window.ZenBucket.collection_instances[collection_name] || new window.ZenBucket.Collections[collection_name]({})