Using Ember initializers and injections to setup the `currentUser` within your app.

account_routes.js

App.AccountEditRoute = Ember.Route.extend({
  setupController: function(controller) {
    controller.set('content', this.get('currentUser'));
  }
});

index.html.haml

%noscript
  .container
    .alert
      %strong
        Javascript is disabled!
      The AppName UI is built entirely in Javascript, as such you need to enable
      Javascript in your browser to continue.

:javascript
  var currentUser = jQuery.parseJSON('#{current_user_json}');

injections.js

Ember.Application.initializer({
  name: "currentUser",

  initialize: function(container, application) {
    var store = container.lookup('store:main');
    var obj = store.load(CrashLog.User, currentUser);

    container.optionsForType('user', { instantiate: false, singleton: true });
    container.register('user', 'current', CrashLog.User.find(obj.id));
  }
});

Ember.Application.initializer({
  name: "injectCurrentUser",
  after: 'currentUser',

  initialize: function(container) {
    container.injection('controller:application', 'currentUser', 'user:current');
    container.typeInjection('route', 'currentUser', 'user:current');
  }
});

@conrad-vanl & @ivanvanderbyl Would love to know if you guys got around the content is undefined error?

@rlivsey solves it in his pusher example by reopening the ControllerMixing and setting the value to null...

Ember.ControllerMixin.reopen({
  pusher: null
});

See: http://livsey.org/blog/2013/02/10/integrating-pusher-with-ember/

How did you guys get around this?

Looks like that issue is fixed in master

FYI @AlexanderZaytsev I couldn't get this working as the $('meta[name="current-user"]').attr('content') dom element was not yet loaded. I finally got it working by adding a ready block

Ember.Application.initializer

  name: 'currentUser'

  initialize: (container) ->
    $ ->
      store = container.lookup('store:main')
      attributes = $('meta[name="current-user"]').attr('content')
      console.log attributes
      if attributes
        object = store.load(App.User, JSON.parse(attributes))
        user = App.User.find(object.id)

        controller = container.lookup('controller:currentUser').set('content', user)

        container.typeInjection('controller', 'currentUser', 'controller:currentUser')

@boy-yer your Approach #2 looks interesting, but where is the current_permission method you are delegating the can_update etc. to in the ApplicationController? and why do you pass an array with these values to the serializer? Something I'm not getting here... please advice. Thanks!

I'm trying to collect various Auth solutions in a new gem ember-beercan https://github.com/kristianmandrup/ember-beercan

I couldn't get it to work, I kept returning Guest in my template view.

http://stackoverflow.com/q/16548010/1515899

@amaanr @AlexanderZaytsev Perhaps hooking into the deferReadiness and advanceReadiness methods is necessary?

Ember.Application.initializer

  name: 'currentUser'

  initialize: (container) ->
    App.deferReadiness()
    $ ->
      store = container.lookup('store:main')
      attributes = $('meta[name="current-user"]').attr('content')
      console.log attributes
      if attributes
        object = store.load(App.User, JSON.parse(attributes))
        user = App.User.find(object.id)

        controller = container.lookup('controller:currentUser').set('content', user)

        container.typeInjection('controller', 'currentUser', 'controller:currentUser')
      App.advanceReadiness();

This might not work at all... I just learned about the Readiness methods a few minutes ago. :P

@AlexanderZaytsev Thanks for that article, it helped a ton

Is there a non-private alternative to typeInjection?

@amaanr @AlexanderZaytsev I use the readiness calls that @listrophy suggests.

Remember to tell currentUser Initializer to fire up after loading store, otherwise store will be undefined

Ember.Application.initializer({
  name: 'currentUser',
  after: 'store',