Announcing Backbone.js 1.0(ashkenas.com)

    collection.fetch({reset: true})

    Backbone.Controller = Backbone.View;

    Foo = Backbone.Model.extend({url: "/bar" })
    f = new Foo
    f.fetch({type: "BLAH"}) 

    leads to a "BLAH /bar" request instead of a GET.

    > PUT as a default makes sense but it should be able to support 
    > POST, PATCH, GET, CHANGETHETHING or anything else, as browsers 
    > now support arbitrary method strings in XHR.

    model.save()
    // PUT all of the models current attributes to model.url

    model.save(attrs, {patch: true})
    // PATCH just the `attrs` to model.url

    // Override Backbone.sync to use the PUT HTTP method for PATCH requests
    // when doing Model#save({...}, { patch: true });
    var originalSync = Backbone.sync;
    Backbone.sync = function(method, model, options) {
        if (method === 'patch') options.type = 'PUT';
        return originalSync(method, model, options);
    };