routes are not rendering results - ember.js

I'm trying to figure out why my routes have stopped working. I recently upgraded to Ember JS RC 3 (from RC2) and after going through the changelog, I can't figure out why my routes stopped working. Maybe I changed something in trying to fix it; I don't know. But here's what I've got.
Here are my routes.
App.Router.map(function() {
this.route("site", { path: "/" });
this.route("about");
this.resource('posts', { path: '/posts' }, function() {
this.route('new');
this.route('show', { path: '/:post_id' });
this.route('edit', { path: '/:post_id/edit'})
});
this.route("map");
});
Here is my route handler...
App.PostsIndexRoute = Em.Route.extend({
model: function(){
return App.Post.find();
},
setupController: function(controller, model){
controller.set('content', model);
}
});
Here is my model
App.Post = DS.Model.extend({
body: DS.attr('string'),
headline: DS.attr('string'),
creator: DS.attr('string'),
created: DS.attr('date')
});
Here's the JSON being pulled over the network (I see it coming, just not being rendered -- the view is not rendered at all)
[
{
"creatorID": "512808071f7152f9b6000001",
"creator": "Aaron",
"headline": "second entry",
"body": "this is my second entry. ",
"updated": "2013-03-04T20:10:14.566Z",
"created": "2013-03-04T20:10:14.566Z",
"id": "5134ffa6095e930000000001"
},
{
"body": "this is my first entry. ",
"created": "2013-02-28T22:39:32.001Z",
"creator": "Aaron",
"creatorID": "512808071f7152f9b6000001",
"headline": "first entry",
"updated": "2013-03-01T18:13:35.934Z",
"id": "512fdca479d3420000000001"
}
]
Probably also important to note that I do NOT see any JS errors here, as I'm visiting localhost/posts
Thanks for your help!
EDIT: Here is the template I'm using to render the entries (jade based).
div {{content}}
{{#each post in content}}
div(class="post limit-width")
h3(class="headline") {{#linkTo 'posts.show' post}} {{ post.headline }} {{/linkTo}}
p {{{post.body}}}
h6
em Posted by {{post.creator}} on {{post.created}}
{{/each}}
note that the {{content}} tag is being used to determine if there's even an object present; there is, but its length seems to be zero. Which makes me think that no entries are being loaded via Ember Data, but I cannot figure out why.

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API Stub
========
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"id": 1,
"title": "Rails is omakase",
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"user" : "dhh"
},
"comments": [{
"id": "1",
"body": "Rails is unagi"
}, {
"id": "2",
"body": "Omakase O_o"
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var Post = DS.Model.extend({
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user: attr(),
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var Comment = DS.Model.extend({
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// this.route('new');
// });
});
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app/templates/index.hbs:
<h2>{{title}}</h2>
<p>{{body}}</p>
<section class="comments">
<ul>
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<li>
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</li>
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</ul>
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package.json:
...
"name": "cli2test",
"APIMethod": "stub",
"version": "0.0.0",
"private": true,
"directories": {
"doc": "doc",
"test": "test"
...
The short-term answer on this, from Stefan Penner via Twitter:
#caretpi API stub does not work in cli. We hope to have it integrated soon though— Stefan Penner (#stefanpenner) April 1, 2014
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Maybe I'm overlooking something, but I from can't figure out how I'm supposed
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See: http://emberjs.com/api/data/classes/DS.EmbeddedRecordsMixin.html. I haven't tested it though!
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A simple implementation example:
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})
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https://github.com/emberjs/data/blob/master/TRANSITION.md#embedded-records
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