[rschmukler]

Check out my site: http://goodmate.co

We do similar things and you might find some inspiration or things you'd like to build into yours. PS. I also did mine for getting familiar with some new web techniques (Backbone + Rails in this case)

[andrewberls]

Goodmate looks fantastic! You definitely have a lot of features that I would love to try and build into Payback. I'm actually thinking of doing my next project in Backbone too - do you recommend any particular resources for getting started?

[rschmukler]

Sorry for the delay, highly recommend using backbone-rails [1]. Reading the docs for Backbone and then the source for the adapters in that gem was really helpful. Ryan Bates also does a screen cast on it, but it costs money [2]. Nonetheless, his pro-line of casts are great if you can swing the $10/mo.

I also think backbone looks great in CoffeeScript, and since rails prefers it anyway, I think it works out. Here's a good tutorial on that: [3]

[1] https://github.com/codebrew/backbone-rails [2] http://railscasts.com/episodes/323-backbone-on-rails-part-1 [3] http://adamjspooner.github.com/coffeescript-meet-backbonejs/