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0 pointssideproject13y ago0 comments

Cool, thanks for explaining.

But, I really really think for a newbie (like me) to even find out that I can use jQuery.ajax to create Ember.Objects is confusing. The immediate questions following that would be

* How do I do that? Can I see an example? And where do I find a counter-example? * Then why Ember Object (ok fine they provide cool ORM features, but when I'm starting, I just want to understand what/where things are)

I know a lot of people are raving about Emberjs, and personally it looks good and I really want to get into it, but really really really, I found it not-newbie friendly.

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rxcfc13y ago

Creating an Ember Object is very simple: `Ember.Object.create(properties)`. If you want, you can subclass `Ember.Object` and then `create` an instance of your subclass. The main benefit to using `Ember.Object` is that you get convenience methods like `get` and `set` (instead of having to use `Ember.get` and `Ember.set`). You can also add computed properties and the like to subclasses. I think this is actually covered fairly well in the guides: http://emberjs.com/guides/object-model/classes-and-instances....

Creating an object instance with AJAX is as simple as just calling `create` with the data provided in the callback. However, you may want to create the object first, then update the object's properties in the AJAX callback. This is similar to how Ember Data handles things.

Also, `Ember.Object` has nothing to do with ORM. Ember Data addresses this with `DS.Model`.

If there's a specific case you feel like we've missed in the guides, we'd love to have you file an issue about it at https://github.com/emberjs/website/issues.

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