use jbuilder to render backbone json.

4 files changed, 24 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
index 893abc5d..efb8ccad 100644
--- a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ module ApplicationHelper
   end
 
   def backbone_collection_for(items)
-    render partial: 'backbone_collection', locals: { items: items }
+    safe_name = items.name.split('::').last
+    collection_name = safe_name.pluralize
+    render partial: 'backbone_collection', locals: {
+      collection_name: collection_name,
+      items: items,
+      partial_name: collection_name.downcase,
+    }
   end
 end
diff --git a/app/views/application/_backbone_collection.html.erb b/app/views/application/_backbone_collection.html.erb
index a806939f..85520ba6 100644
--- a/app/views/application/_backbone_collection.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/application/_backbone_collection.html.erb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <% cache items do %>
-<%= javascript_tag do %>
-csx.<%= items.name.split('::').last.pluralize %> = new Backbone.Collection(<%= items.to_json.html_safe %>);
-<% end %>
+  <%= javascript_tag do %>
+    csx.<%= collection_name %> = new Backbone.Collection(<%= raw render partial: "application/json/#{partial_name}", locals: { items: items } %>);
+  <% end %>
 <% end %>
diff --git a/app/views/application/json/_categories.jbuilder b/app/views/application/json/_categories.jbuilder
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f766b88a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/application/json/_categories.jbuilder
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+json.cache! items do
+  json.array! items do |category|
+    json.id category.id
+    json.name category.name
+    json.slug category.slug
+  end
+end
diff --git a/app/views/application/json/_tags.jbuilder b/app/views/application/json/_tags.jbuilder
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8b0ecc85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/application/json/_tags.jbuilder
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+json.cache! items do
+  json.array! items do |tag|
+    json.id tag.id
+    json.name tag.name
+    json.count tag.taggings_count
+  end
+end