nginx config for ember.js/rails/passenger using history api - ember.js

Question

I have an nginx configuration which is correctly serving up index.html no matter what URL the user goes to. For example if the user goes to: myapp.example.com/foo/bar, nginx correctly serves index.html, so that ember.js can handle the /foo/bar route.
But I also need nginx to hand off urls that start with /api to my rails application. This is my current config:
server {
listen 80;
server_name myapp.example.com;
root /home/app/myapp/current/public;
passenger_enabled on;
passenger_user app;
passenger_ruby /usr/bin/ruby2.2;
location /api/ {
}
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html?/$request_uri;
}
}
The server (nginx, not rails) returns 404 when ember.js makes any API requests. What should I be putting into the location /api/ section or what else should I change?

Answer 1

Moving the passenger options to the location /api section seems to have worked, like this:
server {
listen 80;
server_name myapp.example.com;
root /home/app/myapp/current/public;
location /api/ {
passenger_enabled on;
passenger_user app;
passenger_ruby /usr/bin/ruby2.2;
}
location / {
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html?/$request_uri;
}
}