Using Backbone.js in CoffeeScript

If you don't know about CoffeeScript yet, you need to check it out. Now. -- I love it. It feels as fun and clean as writing in Ruby, only it compiles to JavaScript. That's what you would call "all good." If you were one to use such expressions.

Here's some coffee I created so I could use Backbone classes as native CoffeeScript classes:

	# Backbone CoffeeScript Helpers by M@ McCray.
	# Source: http://gist.github.com/625893
	#
	# Use Backbone classes as native CoffeeScript classes:
	#
	# class TaskController extends Events
	#
	# class TaskView extends View
	# tagName: 'li'
	# @SRC: '<div class="icon">!</div><div class="name"><%= name %></div>'
	#
	# constructor: ->
	# super
	# @template= _.template(TaskView.SRC)
	# @render() if @model?
	#
	# render: ->
	# $(@el).html @template( @model.toJSON() )
	#
	# Etc...
	#
	class Events
	_.extend(Events::, Backbone.Events)
	this.Events = Events
	class Model
	constructor: ->
	Backbone.Model.apply(this, arguments)
	_.extend(Model::, Backbone.Model.prototype)
	this.Model = Model
	class Collection
	constructor: ->
	Backbone.Collection.apply(this, arguments)
	_.extend(Collection::, Backbone.Collection.prototype)
	this.Collection = Collection
	class View
	constructor: ->
	Backbone.View.apply(this, arguments)
	_.extend(View::, Backbone.View.prototype)
	this.View = View

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