Vertebrae.coffee

Strengthening your backbone.

General plugins for backbone.js http://github.com/documentcloud/backbone

Get

Absolutely no setup to get attributes across multiple related models and collections. Use as many or as few arguments as you would like.

Want to find a model's related collection or an attribute from that collection? Just assign arguments to the get method that explan where to look.

Example:

Set up your models and collections as normal.

Note = Backbone.Model.extend();
Notes = Backbone.Collection.extend({model: Note});

Owner = Backbone.Model.extend();
Owners = Backbone.Collection.extend({model: Owner});

Company = Backbone.Model.extend();
Companies = Backbone.Collection.extend({model: Company});

Create your collections with models

owners = new Owners({
    id: 42
    name: "Bob from Accounting"
    company_id: 64
})

notes = new Notes({
    id: 1
    text: "Please submit your TPS reports"
    owner_id: 42
})

companies = new Companies({
    id: 64
    name: "Initech"

})

Make your call

company_name = notes.get(1, 'owner_id', owners, 'company_id', companies, 'name')

company_name returns "Initech"

We'll let you follow it through.

Originally based on ligament.js https://github.com/dbrady/ligament.js