working update in backbone and refactored controller

app/assets/javascripts/views/job_prospects/job_prospect.js.coffee

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ class JobOrg.Views.JobProspect extends Backbone.View
 
   initialize: ->
     @model.on('destroy', @unrenderJobProspect, this)
+    @model.on('save', @rerenderJobProspect, this)
 
   render: ->
     $(@el).html(@template(job_prospect: @model))
@@ -18,6 +19,28 @@ class JobOrg.Views.JobProspect extends Backbone.View
     event.preventDefault
     @model.destroy()
 
+  editJobProspect: (event, job_prospect) ->
+    event.preventDefault()
+    $('form#new_job_prospect').hide()
+    $('form#edit_job_prospect').show()
+    $('#edit_job_prospect_company').val(@model.get('company'))
+    $('#edit_job_prospect_position').val(@model.get('position'))
+    $('#edit_id').val(@model.get('id'))
+
+  handleError: (job_prospect, response) ->
+    if response.status == 422
+      errors = $.parseJSON(response.responseText).errors
+      for attribute, messages of errors
+        for message in messages
+          $('.alert-error').text("#{attribute} #{message}.")
+          $('.alert-error').show()
+          $('.alert-success').hide()
+          $('.alert-warning').hide()
+          $('.alert-notice').hide()
+
+  rerenderJobProspect: ->
+    $(@el).html(@template(job_prospect: @model))
+    this
 
   unrenderJobProspect: ->
     $(@el).remove()

app/assets/javascripts/views/job_prospects/job_prospects_index.js.coffee

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ class JobOrg.Views.JobProspectsIndex extends Backbone.View
 
   events:
     'submit #new_job_prospect': 'createJobProspect'
+    'click input[value="Update Job Prospect"]': 'updateJobProspect'
+
 
   initialize: ->
     @collection.on('reset', @render, this)
@@ -33,6 +35,27 @@ class JobOrg.Views.JobProspectsIndex extends Backbone.View
         $('.alert-warning').hide()
         $('.alert-notice').hide()
       error: @handleError
+
+  updateJobProspect: (event, job_prospect) ->
+    event.preventDefault()
+    attributes =
+      company: $('#edit_job_prospect_company').val()
+      position: $('#edit_job_prospect_position').val()
+    editJob = @collection.get($('#edit_id').val())
+    editJob.set attributes
+    editJob.save attributes,
+      wait: true
+      success: ->
+        $('#edit_job_prospect')[0].reset()
+        $('#edit_job_prospect').hide()
+        $('#new_job_prospect').show()
+        $('.alert-success').text "Your job prospect has been successfully updated."
+        $('.alert-error').hide()
+        $('.alert-success').show()
+        $('.alert-warning').hide()
+        $('.alert-notice').hide()
+        editJob.trigger("save")
+      error: @handleError
 
   handleError: (job_prospect, response) ->
     if response.status == 422

app/assets/templates/job_prospects/index.jst.eco

@@ -11,13 +11,16 @@
 	<input type="text" name="company" id="edit_job_prospect_company"><br/>
 	Position:</br>
 	<input type="text" name="position" id="edit_job_prospect_position"><br/>
+	<input type="hidden" name="id" id="edit_id">
 	<input type="submit" value="Update Job Prospect" class="btn btn-small btn-info">
 </form>
 <table class="table">
 	<thead>
 		<tr> 
 			<th> Company </th>
 			<th> Position </th>
+			<th> Edit </th>
+			<th> Delete </th>
 		</tr>
 	</thead>
 	<tbody id="jobprospects">

app/controllers/job_prospects_controller.rb

@@ -1,38 +1,24 @@
 class JobProspectsController < ApplicationController
 	respond_to :json, :html
 	def index
-		@job_prospects = JobProspect.paginate(:page => params[:page],
-                           :per_page   => 8,
-                           :order      => 'created_at DESC',
-                           :conditions => { :user_id => current_user.id })
+		@job_prospects = JobProspect.where(:user_id => current_user.id)
 		respond_with @job_prospects
 	end
 
-	# def new
-	# 	@job_prospect=JobProspect.new
-	# 	respond_to do |format| 
-	# 		format.html { render :action => "new" }
-	# 		format.js
-	# 	end
-	# end
-
-
 	def create
 		@job_prospect = JobProspect.create(	:company => params[:job_prospect][:company],
 																			:position => params[:job_prospect][:position],
 																			:user => current_user)
 		respond_with @job_prospect
 	end
 
-	# def edit
-	# 	@job_prospect = JobProspect.find(params[:id])
-	# 	respond_to { |format| format.js }
-	# end 
-
 	def update
 		@job_prospect = JobProspect.find(params[:id])
+		@job_prospect.update_attributes(:company => params[:job_prospect][:company],
+																			:position => params[:job_prospect][:position],
+																			:user => current_user)
 
-		@job_prospect.update_attributes(params[:job_prospect]) ? respond_with(@job_prospect) : respond_with(@job_prospect, :status => unprocessable_entity)
+		respond_with(@job_prospect)
 	end
 
 	def show

config/routes.rb

@@ -2,11 +2,12 @@
 
   devise_for :users
 
+  root :to => "main#index"
+
   scope "api" do
     resources :job_prospects
   end
 
-  root :to => "main#index"
   resources :job_prospects do
     resources :events
   end