assets_index.js.coffee

class Shsh.Views.AssetsIndex extends Backbone.View

  template: JST['assets/index']

  initalize: ->
    @collection.on('reset', @render, this)

  render: ->
    $(@el).html(@template(assets: @collection))
    console.log('rendered')
    this

assets_router.js.coffee

class Shsh.Routers.Assets extends Backbone.Router
  routes: 
    '': 'index'

  initialize: ->
    @collection = new Shsh.Collections.Assets()
    @collection.fetch({reset: true})

  index: ->
    view = new Shsh.Views.AssetsIndex(collection: @collection)
    $('#container').html(view.render().el)

index.slim

h1 Hiya!!

p = @assets.length

response.json

[{"created_at":"2013-09-19T14:28:37Z","id":1,"title":"Asset 0","updated_at":"2013-09-19T14:28:37Z"},{"created_at":"2013-09-19T14:28:37Z","id":2,"title":"Asset 1","updated_at":"2013-09-19T14:28:37Z"},{"created_at":"2013-09-19T14:28:37Z","id":3,"title":"Asset 2","updated_at":"2013-09-19T14:28:37Z"},{"created_at":"2013-09-19T14:28:37Z","id":4,"title":"Asset 3","updated_at":"2013-09-19T14:28:37Z"},{"created_at":"2013-09-19T14:28:37Z","id":5,"title":"Asset 4","updated_at":"2013-09-19T14:28:37Z"},{"created_at":"2013-09-19T14:28:37Z","id":6,"title":"Asset 5","updated_at":"2013-09-19T14:28:37Z"},{"created_at":"2013-09-19T14:28:37Z","id":7,"title":"Asset 6","updated_at":"2013-09-19T14:28:37Z"},{"created_at":"2013-09-19T14:28:37Z","id":8,"title":"Asset 7","updated_at":"2013-09-19T14:28:37Z"},{"created_at":"2013-09-19T14:28:37Z","id":9,"title":"Asset 8","updated_at":"2013-09-19T14:28:37Z"},{"created_at":"2013-09-19T14:28:37Z","id":10,"title":"Asset 9","updated_at":"2013-09-19T14:28:37Z"}]

So the view gets rendered, @assets.length comes back as zero, but there's 10 in the DB. Maybe I'm wrong, but wouldn't the console.log('rendered') come back twice?

If I trigger all the steps manually in the console, it gets updated with 10.