Steps:

rails new backbone-mongoid -O -T –skip-bundle cd backbone-mongoid

add the following gems to the Gemfile

gem ‘mongoid’, ‘~> 3.0.0.rc’ gem ‘bson_ext’ gem ‘rails-backbone’ gem ‘haml-rails’

group :test do

gem 'steak'
gem 'factory_girl'

end

run commands:

bundle install rails g mongoid:install rails g steak:install rails g backbone:install rails g scaffold task title done:boolean rails g backbone:scaffold title:string done:boolean

mongoid uses _id while backbone assumes id

this can be solved on serverside overriding as_json in Task model (or even seralizable_hash in Mongoid’s BackboneSerialization) or on client side: adding “idAttribute: ‘_id’” to the Model and changing id to _id whereever it occurs

:)