Ember.js get current route

Question

I'm switching to the new ember router but have a very simple question -- how do I figure out what route I'm currently in? Before you could do something like App.router.get('currentState'), but this doesn't seem to work anymore as the router no longer inherits from StateManager

Answer 1

Have a look at this question.

Summary: the currentState is now stored in the property currentPathin your ApplicationController. The accepted solution was to observer this property to write it into a global property:

App = Em.Application.create({
    currentPath: ''
});
ApplicationController : Ember.Controller.extend({
    updateCurrentPath: function() {
        App.set('currentPath', this.get('currentPath'));
    }.observes('currentPath')
});

Answer 2

I will probably get blasted for this but after a ton of frustration with this I decided to implement a really ugly workaround.

My use case was trying to get the ID of the current post because I was posting a reply to it. Think something like this for our current route:

"...#/post/12345"

my workaround (ugliest code ever):

var currentId = window.location.hash.split('/')[2];
 App.Message.createRecord({
      content: message,
      inReplyTo: currentId
    }).get('transaction').commit();

Answer 3

In controller I could get the current route name using the code below. Good luck

this.get("currentRouteName")