serialize current user json into body tag for now

app/models/comment.rb

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
     t.add :id
     t.add :guid
     t.add :text
-    t.add :author, :template => :post
+    t.add :author
   end
 
 

app/models/person.rb

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
 
   # NOTE API V1 to be extracted
   acts_as_api
-  api_accessible :post do |t|
+  api_accessible :backbone do |t|
     t.add :id
     t.add :name
     t.add lambda { |person|

app/models/post.rb

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
     t.add :comments_count
     t.add :last_three_comments
     t.add :provider_display_name
-    t.add :author, :template => :post
+    t.add :author
   end
 
   xml_attr :provider_display_name

app/views/layouts/application.html.haml

@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
     - if @person
       %link{:rel => "alternate", :href => "#{@person.public_url}.atom", :type => "application/atom+xml", :title => "#{t('.public_feed', :name => @person.name)}"}
 
-  %body{:class => "#{yield(:body_class)}"}
+  %body{:class => "#{yield(:body_class)}", 'data-current-user-metadata' => CGI::escape(current_user.person.as_api_response(:backbone).to_json) }
 
     - unless @page == :logged_out
       - flash.each do |name, msg|

public/javascripts/models/post.js

@@ -2,5 +2,10 @@ var Post = Backbone.Model.extend({
   url: "/posts/:id",
   intTime: function(){
     return +new Date(this.get("created_at")) / 1000;
+  },
+
+  // should be moved into the view or something?
+  currentUserJSON: function(){
+    return $.parseJSON(unescape($("body").data("current-user-metadata")));
   }
 });