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Models

In most Ember.js apps, models are handled by Ember Data. Ember Data is a library, built with and for Ember.js, designed to make it easy to retrieve records from a server, make changes in the browser, then save those changes back to the server.

It provides many of the facilities you'd find in server-side ORMs like ActiveRecord, but is designed specifically for the unique environment of JavaScript in the browser.

Without any configuration, Ember Data can load and save records and relationships served via a RESTful JSON API, provided it follows certain conventions.

We also understand that there exist many web service APIs in the world, many of them crazy, inconsistent, and out of your control. Ember Data is designed to be configurable to work with whatever persistence layer you want, from the ordinary to the exotic.

Currently, Ember Data ships as a separate library from Ember.js, while we expand the adapter API to support more features. The API described in this section tends to be stable, however. Until Ember Data is included as part of the standard distribution, you can get your copy of the latest passing build from the "master" branch from builds.emberjs.com:

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