Example

[karneaud]

Can we get some example code for the nodejs noobs?

[akonwi]

I think I deleted the code that I wrote with this when I switched to a chrome app and I don't plan on extending this anymore.

But it works like this:

Backbone = require 'backbone'
Datastore = require 'nedb'
sync = require 'backbone.nedb'
sync(Backbone) # Pass Backbone to sync so it can replace the default Backbone.Sync

# do stuff
window.db = new Datastore() # unfortunately, right now 'db' needs to be a global

me = new Backbone.Model(name: 'akonwi')

me.save()

db.findOne name: 'akonwi', (err, doc) ->
  # doc is just a plain object here without the backbone extras
  console.log(doc.name) # => 'akonwi'

You can look at the tests for more examples. I think that would be very useful

[karneaud]

@akonwi ...THANKS!! I figured this out myself I am using nodejs

Backbone = require('backbone');
require('backbone.nedb')(Backbone); 
Player = Backbone.Model.extend({ idAttribute: "_id", db: new Datastore({filename: path.join(__dirname, '../data/players.db'), autoload:true })});

Note the extending of models to contain the db ...since Backbone is so extensible why not extend the object with the Datastore...

Thus in your backbone_sync.js

I changed the

var attributes;
        console.log("creating model...");
        attributes = model.toJSON();
        return db.insert(attributes, function(err, doc) 

to

var attributes;
        console.log("creating model...");
        attributes = model.toJSON();
        return model.db.insert(attributes, function(err, doc) 

I'm using separate datastore collections for my custom models so it kind of suits me well here...

I was going to branch it and do a pull request but I'm not sure how conventional this was in keeping with you policies....what do you think?

[akonwi]

Awesome! Being able to use different stores for collections was something I wanted to have so go for it.