Getting Into Ember.js: Part 5

In part 3 of Rey Bango's Ember series, he showed you how you can interact with data using Ember's Ember.Object main base class to create objects that define the methods and properties that act as a wrapper for your data.

While this method definitely works and is even promoted by Ember-based Discourse as their way of doing it, it does require that you flesh out and expose the API that you'd like to reference the data with. Most MVC frameworks tend to include ORM-like capabilities so if you're used to Rails, for example, you'd be very familiar with the benefits of ActiveRecord which helps to manage and do the heavy lifting of interacting with data.

The Ember team has wanted to do the same thing but their main focus has been to get a stable v1 release of their core framework out first to ensure that complementary components could be built on a stable foundation. He actually applaud this and he actually made mention of the fact that you should hold off on using Ember Data because of this.

Now that Ember RC8 is out and v1 seems to be coming around the corner, he felt it was a good time to start exploring Ember Data and see what it offers.