Not understanding fixtures in ember - ember.js

Question

I am trying to, for better lack of a term stub out my application's user model using fixtures. I have been following the docs on fixtures, as well as associated links for model development. The issue is that I keep running into cannot GET /user/Administrator I have used yeoman to generate a ember project, but lets walk through what I have:
Set up the app
var EW = window.EW = Ember.Application.create();
Setup the fixture (store.js)
EW.ApplicationAdapter = DS.FixtureAdapter;
/* I need a fixture. */
EW.User.FIXTURES = [
{
"user":{
"id":1,
"first_name":"Adam",
"email":"adamkylebalan#email.com",
"last_name":"Balan",
"user_name": "Administrator",
"role_names":[
"Administrator"
],
"blogs":[
{
"id":2,
"title":"Blog Title",
"posts":[
{
"id":1,
"title":"Something",
"content":"Some Content",
"tag_names":[
"Some Tag",
"Other Tag"
],
"category_names":[
"Some Category",
"Another Category"
],
"blog_id":2,
"comments":[
{
"id":1,
"post_id":1,
"author":"Adam",
"comment":"This is a valid long comment."
}
]
}
]
}
]
}
}
]
Model
var attr = DS.attr;
// Set up the user model and it's relationships.
EW.User = DS.Model.extend({
first_name: attr('string'),
last_name: attr('string'),
user_name: attr('string'),
blogs: DS.hasMany('blog'),
role: DS.hasMany('roles'),
// Create full names for every one.
fullName: function(){
return this.get('first_name') + ' ' + this.get('last_name');
}.property('first_name', 'last_name')
});
Router
EW.Router.map(function(){
this.resource('user', { path: '/user/:user_name' });
});
EW.UserRoute = Ember.Route.extend({
model: function(params){
return jQuery.getJSON("/user/" + params.user_name);
}
serialize: function(model){
return { user_name: model.get('user_name') }
}
});
As far as I can tell I have done everything correctly. throws the error:
Cannot GET /user/Administrator
and I am not sure if I failed to set something up properly. the console gives me no errors, the ember console wont load because of this error and the network tab is giving me a 404 for localhost:9000/user/Administrator
Ideas?

Answer 1

You’ll want to call return this.get('store').find('user', params.user_id) in your model hook:
EW.Router.map(function() {
this.resource('user', { path: '/users/:user_id' });
});
EW.UserRoute = Ember.Route.extend({
model: function(params) {
return this.get('store').find('user', params.user_id);
}
});
Note that it’s user_id rather than user_name. This is because the fixture adapter is hard coded to find records by their id rather than name. I’d suggest using the url-friendly form of the name as the ID.