comment and post deletion now works on the backbone stream

app/controllers/comments_controller.rb

@@ -44,12 +44,14 @@ class CommentsController < ApplicationController
       current_user.retract(@comment)
       respond_to do |format|
         format.js { render :nothing => true, :status => 204 }
+        format.json { render :nothing => true, :status => 204 }
         format.mobile{ redirect_to @comment.post }
       end
     else
       respond_to do |format|
         format.mobile {redirect_to :back}
         format.js {render :nothing => true, :status => 403}
+        format.json { render :nothing => true, :status => 403 }
       end
     end
   end

app/controllers/posts_controller.rb

@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ class PostsController < ApplicationController
       current_user.retract(@post)
       respond_to do |format|
         format.js {render 'destroy'}
+        format.json { render :nothing => true, :status => 204 }
         format.all {redirect_to multi_path}
       end
     else

app/views/templates/reshare.ujs

@@ -1,28 +1,36 @@
 <div class="reshare">
 
-  <a href="/people/<%= root.author.id %>">
-    <img src="<%= root.author.avatar.small %>" class="avatar" data-person-id="<%= root.author.id %>"/>
-  </a>
+  <% if(root) { %>
+
+    <a href="/people/<%= root.author.id %>">
+      <img src="<%= root.author.avatar.small %>" class="avatar" data-person-id="<%= root.author.id %>"/>
+    </a>
+
+    <div class="content">
+      <div class="post_initial_info">
+        <span class="from">
+          <a href="/people/<%= root.author.id %>">
+            <%= root.author.name %>
+          </a>
+        </span>
+        <span class="details">
+          -
+          <a href="/posts/<%= root.id %>">
+            <time class="timeago" datetime="<%= root.created_at %>"/>
+          </a>
+        </span>
+      </div>
+
+      <!-- duplicate from statusmessage partial -->
+      <p>
+        <%= root.text %>
+      </p>
 
-  <div class="content">
-    <div class="post_initial_info">
-      <span class="from">
-        <a href="/people/<%= root.author.id %>">
-          <%= root.author.name %>
-        </a>
-      </span>
-      <span class="details">
-        -
-        <a href="/posts/<%= root.id %>">
-          <time class="timeago" datetime="<%= root.created_at %>"/>
-        </a>
-      </span>
     </div>
 
-    <!-- duplicate from statusmessage partial -->
-    <p>
-      <%= root.text %>
-    </p>
-
-  </div>
+    <% } else { %>
+      <p>
+        Original post deleted by author.
+      </p>
+    <% } %>
 </div>

app/views/templates/stream_element.ujs

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
         </span>
         ·
 
-        <% if(public) { %>
+        <% if(public && author.id != current_user.id) { %>
           <span class="reshare_action">
             <% if(root) {
                 var rootGuid = root.guid;

public/javascripts/app/models/comment.js

@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
 App.Models.Comment = Backbone.Model.extend({
-  url: function() {
-    return "/posts/" + this.get("post_id") + "/comments";
-  }
+  urlRoot: "/comments"
 });

public/javascripts/app/models/post.js

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 App.Models.Post = Backbone.Model.extend({
-  url: "/posts",
+  url: function(){
+    return "/posts/" + this.get("id");
+  },
 
   initialize: function() {
     this.comments = new App.Collections.Comments(this.get("last_three_comments"));

public/javascripts/app/views/comment_view.js

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 App.Views.Comment = Backbone.View.extend({
+  events : {
+    "click .delete": "destroyComment"
+  },
+
   initialize: function(options) {
     this.model = options.model;
     this.template = _.template($("#comment-template").html());
@@ -10,6 +14,21 @@ App.Views.Comment = Backbone.View.extend({
       App.user()
     )));
 
+    this.delegateEvents(); //we need this because we are explicitly setting this.el in this.render()
+
     return this;
+  },
+
+  // NOTE: pull this out into a base class
+  destroyComment: function(evt) {
+    if(evt) { evt.preventDefault() }
+
+    var domElement = this.el;
+
+    this.model.destroy({
+      success: function(){
+        $(domElement).remove();
+      }
+    });
   }
 });

public/javascripts/app/views/post_view.js

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ App.Views.Post = Backbone.View.extend({
 
   events: {
     "click .focus_comment_textarea": "focusCommentTextarea",
-    "focus .comment_box": "commentTextareaFocused"
+    "focus .comment_box": "commentTextareaFocused",
+    "click .delete:first": "destroyPost"
   },
 
   initialize: function(options) {
@@ -51,6 +52,19 @@ App.Views.Post = Backbone.View.extend({
 
   commentTextareaFocused: function(evt){
     this.$("form").removeClass('hidden').addClass("open");
+  },
+
+  // NOTE: pull this out into a base class
+  destroyPost: function(evt){
+    if(evt){ evt.preventDefault(); }
+
+    var domElement = this.el;
+
+    this.model.destroy({
+      success: function(){
+        $(domElement).remove();
+      }
+    });
   }
 
 });