'action' in Ember not calling the controller method

Question

I converted this Ember Rails app https://github.com/kagemusha/ember-rails-devise-demo from coffeescript to javascript. The login and registration actions in the AuthController work perfectly when I click the links, however, when I click the logout button, I'm getting an error that nothing handled the logout event, even though there's an action setup to do it in the same controller as the other two links.

Uncaught Error: Nothing handled the event 'logout'. 

        {{view App.MenuItem href="#/login" label="Login" }}
        {{view App.MenuItem href="#/registration" label="Register"}}
         <button class="btn" {{action logout}}>Logout</button>

Can you see why the logout action in the AuthController might not be handling the event. It works in the coffeescript version.

Update, there is a App.NavbarController that extends the ObjectController and wraps the logout in an action hash.

Navbar Controller

  App.NavbarController = Ember.ObjectController.extend({
    needs: ['auth'],
    isAuthenticated: Em.computed.alias("controllers.auth.isAuthenticated"),
    actions: {
      logout: function() {   
        return this.get("controllers.auth").logout();
      }
    }
  });

Authentication controller

App.AuthController = Ember.ObjectController.extend({
    currentUser: null,
    isAuthenticated: Em.computed.notEmpty("currentUser.email"),
    login: function(route) {
      var me;
      me = this;
      return $.ajax({
        url: App.urls.login,
        type: "POST",
        data: {
          "user[email]": route.currentModel.email,
          "user[password]": route.currentModel.password
        },
        success: function(data) {
          log.log("Login Msg " + data.user.dummy_msg);
          me.set('currentUser', data.user);
          return route.transitionTo('home');
        },
        error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
          if (jqXHR.status === 401) {
            return route.controllerFor('login').set("errorMsg", "That email/password combo didn't work.  Please try again");
          } else if (jqXHR.status === 406) {
            return route.controllerFor('login').set("errorMsg", "Request not acceptable (406):  make sure Devise responds to JSON.");
          } else {
            return p("Login Error: " + jqXHR.status + " | " + errorThrown);
          }
        }
      });
    },
    register: function(route) {
      var me;
      me = this;
      return $.ajax({
        // url: App.urls.register,
        url: "/users.json",
        type: "POST",
        data: {
          "user[name]": route.currentModel.name,
          "user[email]": route.currentModel.email,
          "user[password]": route.currentModel.password,
          "user[password_confirmation]": route.currentModel.password_confirmation
        },
        success: function(data) {
          me.set('currentUser', data.user);
          return route.transitionTo('home');
        },
        error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
          return route.controllerFor('registration').set("errorMsg", "That email/password combo didn't work.  Please try again");
        }
      });
    },
    logout: function() {
      var me;
      console.log("Logging out...");
      me = this;
      return $.ajax({
        url: App.urls.logout,
        type: "DELETE",
        dataType: "json",
        success: function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
          $('meta[name="csrf-token"]').attr('content', data['csrf-token']);
          $('meta[name="csrf-param"]').attr('content', data['csrf-param']);
          log.info("Logged out on server");
          me.set('currentUser', null);
          return me.transitionToRoute("home");
        },
        error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
          return alert("Error logging out: " + errorThrown);
        }
      });
    }
  });

Answer 1

Can you show more of your template and views? In the original code the application template uses a render tag to render the NavBar, this renders the NavBar template and starts up the NavBar controller. You might want to throw in an init function with a console log into the controller to make sure its getting created correctly:

init: function(){
    this._super();
    console.log('navbar controller starting...');
}

I noticed that the template code you posted didn't include the {{#if isAuthenticated}} part - is that working correctly?