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Ember.js is driving me crazy

For the past few months I've been working on a project with a fairly complex interactive web interface. This required me to venture into the wild and unpredictable jungle of Javascript development. I was totally unprepared for what I would find. Soon after starting the project it became clear that just using JQuery would not be sufficient for my project. I needed a higher level Javascript framework. After a doing a little research I settled on Ember.js. The Zombie Code Apocalypse Ember was definitely a big improvement over straight JQuery, and allowed me to get some fairly complex UI behavior working very quickly. But recently I've run into some problems. The other day I had a UI widget defined like this: App.FooController = Ember.ObjectController.extend({ // ... }); App.FooView = Ember.View.extend({ // ... }); It was used somewhere on the page, but at some point I decided that the widget was no longer needed, so I commented out the widget's mar