Request from Ember front to Rails back is not happening - ruby-on-rails

Question

I am implementing a front-end in ember 1.13 with a Rails back-end and having the following problem:
After the user is authenticated, I don't seem to be able to retrieve the user's record from the back-end. The browser debugger does not even show a request being made. This is code:
// app/services/session-user.js
import Ember from 'ember';
const { inject: { service }, RSVP } = Ember;
export default Ember.Service.extend({
session: service('session'),
store: service(),
loadCurrentUser() {
currentUser: {
var userId = this.get('user_id');
if (!Ember.isEmpty(userId)) {
return this.get('store').findAll('user', userId);
}
}
}
});
There is a login controller which handles the authentication. But the code for getting the data is in the applications's route:
// app/routes/application.js
import Ember from 'ember';
import ApplicationRouteMixin from 'ember-simple-auth/mixins/application-route-mixin';
const { service } = Ember.inject;
export default Ember.Route.extend(ApplicationRouteMixin, {
sessionUser: service('session-user'),
beforeModel() {
if (this.session.isAuthenticated) {
return this._loadCurrentUser();
}
},
sessionAuthenticated() {
this._loadCurrentUser();
},
_loadCurrentUser() {
return this.get('sessionUser').loadCurrentUser();
},
});
For extra measure I am defining the session store:
// app/session-stores/application.js
import Adaptive from 'ember-simple-auth/session-stores/adaptive';
export default Adaptive.extend();
If there are files I should post, please let me know.
Any hints will be highly appreciated as I am rather new to ember. I have spent several hours researching without luck, as things seem to have changed quite a lot throughout versions.

Answer 1

Look at your service code.
var userId = this.get('user_id');
if (!Ember.isEmpty(userId)) {
return this.get('store').findAll('user', userId);
}
I don't see code that you provided in question where you setting up user_id variable. So if user_id not defined then if statement won't get executed because of !.