emberjs rails submitting in controller without model - ruby-on-rails-3

Question

I'm am brand new to emberjs (1.0.0-RC1) which I'm using on top of rails. I want to submit a form for a session without using an ember model. I feel this is better because there is not real session model in my rails app. For now what works is the following:
#login_controller.js.coffee
SkillUp.LoginController = Ember.ObjectController.extend
# Just a title to pass to the template, for fun
title: "Login Controller"
submit: (controller) ->
model = #get 'model'
model.get('transaction').commit()
#session.js.coffee
SkillUp.Session = DS.Model.extend
email: DS.attr 'string'
password: DS.attr 'string'
#login_route.js.coffee
SkillUp.LoginRoute = Ember.Route.extend
setupController: (controller) ->
controller.set 'title', "Login"
controller.set 'content', SkillUp.Session.createRecord()
<!-- login.handlebars -->
<h2>template: {{title}}</h2>
<form>
{{#with controller}}
email: {{view Ember.TextField valueBinding="email"}}
password: {{view Ember.TextField valueBinding="password" type="password"}}
<button {{action submit}}>Submit</button>
{{/with}}
</form>
As I said my goal is to remove the session.js.coffee because a rails model does not exist for it.
Help would be appreciated thanks

Answer 1

I don't recommend implementing $.ajax directly. I recommend keeping the DS model. This should make testing easier if you use DS.FixtureAdapter. Ideally you should keep all the ajax behind a layer in the application. You shouldn't be dropping in $.ajax in various parts of the application.
EDIT: just because you don't have a Session model in the backend doesn't mean you can't have one on the frontend. The ember app will have it's own models. Don't worry about a 1:1 mapping.

Answer 2

You can just use $.ajax in your controller method to post the values to rails using jQuery manually.
$.ajax('/sessions', {
type: 'POST',
data: {
email: this.get('email'),
password: this.get('password)
},
...
});
Add appropriate handlers for success and failure.