getting results of custom action in rails with angularjs

Question

getting results of custom action in rails with angularjs

I'm using rails 3.2 with angularjs, and I'm trying to understand how to use angular's $resource.

I would like resource to return the results from a non-default action (so not get, save, query, remove, and delete)

So in my Posts controller I have

def home
  @recent_posts = Post.recent_posts
  respond_to do |format|
    format.html
    format.json
  end
end

And then in my js file I have

app.factory "Post", ["$resource", ($resource) ->
  $resource("/post/:id/:action", {id: "@id"}, {home: {method: "GET", isArray: true}})
]

@HomeCtrl = ["$scope", "Post", ($scope, Post) ->
  $scope.recent_posts = Post.home()
]

In my view if I try and do something like ng-repeat="post in recent_posts", it's not returning anything.

ruby-on-rails
angularjs

Answer 1

You forgot to specify the action parameter:

app.factory "Post", ["$resource", ($resource) ->
  $resource "/post/:id/:action",
    id: "@id"
  ,
    home:
      method: "GET"
      params:
        action: "home"

      isArray: true

]

Answer 2

Thanks for your suggestions, they helped me get to what eventually worked. I just changed the Home Controller like so:

@HomeCtrl = ["$scope", "Post", ($scope, Post) ->
  $scope.recent_posts = Post.home({action:'home'});
]