Yes, I saw this, and I like how there is an opinion from the Rails community on ...

		micheljansen on Dec 22, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Backbone.js Fundamentals Yes, I saw this, and I like how there is an opinion from the Rails community on how to structure Backbone code, but shouldn't the opinion be apparent on Backbone's website? My current Backbone is not backed by a Rails app (it is an existing backend in Perl), so I should not need to create a dummy Rails project to learn Backbone.

Backbone doesn't have an opinion on much of anything. It's frustrating sometimes, but it works out well.