It’s better to use the Active Model Adapter
When I started with this project I was trying to use the JSONAPI serializer and adapter that Ember has built in. This unfortunately was doomed to fail as I have a rails backend. Rails expects underscore between words while JSONAPI expects camelCase and so the two would never have lined up. I had set up a simple input page to try out POST calls to my rails backend. It was routing to the correct controller and action but no parameters were being sent. I checked my network tab in chrome and see that they were indeed sent, but a debugger on the rails showed no params.
Jumping straight to the answer I need to use the Active Model Adapater and Serializer. Their github page has some good docs to read through. Simply install it with:
To include it we need to rewrite our serializer:
and adapter:
Sending the POST action to my backend with these change had the correct parameters and we are good to continue on our way.