That's def a job for the adapters. Django, for instance, has a REST adapter that has been worked on here: https://github.com/toranb/ember-data-django-rest-adapt

That's def a job for the adapters. Django, for instance, has a REST adapter that has been worked on here: https://github.com/toranb/ember-data-django-rest-adapter https://github.com/toranb/ember-data-django-rest-adapter As far as the root objects are concerned, I've always been a fan of that part of Rails. Not to say that it cannot be easily gotten rid of with something like this (for ActiveResource)... ActiveResource::Base.include_root_in_json = false Or, like in my example app, with this (for ActiveModelSerializers)... https://github.com/rails-api/active_model_serializers#1-disable-root-globally-for-in-arrayserializer-in-an-initializer https://github.com/rails-api/active_model_serializers#1-disa...