While there is quite a deal of information on integrating ember-data with rails, there is much less on integrating it with other server-side MVC/REST frameworks.
This means that using it with another framework often means modifying that interaction pattern to be more like how rails views ajax, complete with the root objects ({"model":{}}).
This may more accurately apply to the REST driver in ember-data, but that is quite tightly coupled with the rest of it.
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)...
This means that using it with another framework often means modifying that interaction pattern to be more like how rails views ajax, complete with the root objects ({"model":{}}).
This may more accurately apply to the REST driver in ember-data, but that is quite tightly coupled with the rest of it.