The whole point of this post was using a complete frontend on the client side. Like backbone. You don't render backbone using a server-side template -- it's all done on the client side.
I'm not saying throw out all your old tools. I love using Makefiles. I'm saying use the right tool for the job -- and my opinion is that to have a separate client side app like backbone and a simple server-side API, Rails is way overkill.
The whole point of this post was using a complete frontend on the client side. Like backbone. You don't render backbone using a server-side template -- it's all done on the client side.
I'm not saying throw out all your old tools. I love using Makefiles. I'm saying use the right tool for the job -- and my opinion is that to have a separate client side app like backbone and a simple server-side API, Rails is way overkill.