I'm following along with the Angular/Rails tutorial at Thinkster and I've run into an issue which seems to be most likely be Angular-related. Everything works just fine until I get to the Angular Routing section. Simply put, the inline templates within the <script> tags do not load in the <ui-view></ui-view> element. I originally thought this may be due to having opened the page locally as a file rather than having it loaded from a server, but the same problem persists even after integrating Rails (using an older version of Sprockets, as pointed out in this similar but unrelated issue).
When I load the index page in either the browser as a file or as a URL when running the Rails server, I've inspected the HTML and, sure enough, the only thing it shows in the code are the divs and an empty <ui-view> element, indicating something just isn't adding up correctly. I've tried various things, including:
- Using the newest version of ui-router (0.2.15 at this writing) rather than the version in the tutorial
- Using
<div ui-view></div>instead of<ui-view></ui-view> - Changing the value of 'url' in the home state to 'index.html', including using the full path to the file (file:///...)
- Putting the contents of the inline
<script>templates into their own files (without the<script>tags, of course) and specifying the 'templateUrl' field using both relative and full paths - Trying both Chrome and Firefox just to be extra certain
None of these things have worked, even when accessing http://localhost:3000/#/home when the Rails server is running after having integrated Angular into the asset pipeline in the Integrating the Front-end with the Asset Pipeline section of the tutorial. Indeed, the route loads but does not show anything more than a completely blank page with a lonesome and empty <ui-view> element when inspecting the HTML using Chrome's dev tools.
Given that the issue seems to occur even before the Rails portion, it does seem like something to do with Angular itself, but I've got no clue what's going on, especially since I've followed along to the letter.
I'm using Bower to manage the Angular dependencies and the HTML does show that the Angular javascript files in both the app/assets/javascripts directory and in the vendor/assets/bower_components directory are being loaded properly in the <head> section, so everything seems to be okay on the asset pipeline integration.
Versios I'm using:
Rails: 4.2.3
Ruby: 2.2.1p85
Angular: 1.4.3
ui-router: 0.2.15
The code I've got for the major moving parts is below:
app/views/layouts/application.html.erb
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Test App</title>
<%= stylesheet_link_tag 'application', media: 'all' %>
<%= javascript_include_tag 'application' %>
<%= csrf_meta_tags %>
</head>
<body ng-app="testApp">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6 col-md-offset-3">
<ui-view></ui-view>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
app/assets/javascripts/app.js
angular.module('testApp', ['ui.router', 'templates']).config(['$stateProvider', '$urlRouteProvider', function($stateProvider, $urlRouteProvider) {
$stateProvider
.state('home', {
'url': '/home',
'templateUrl': 'home/_home.html',
'controller': 'MainCtrl'
})
.state('posts', {
'url': '/posts/{id}',
'templateUrl': 'posts/_posts.html',
'controller': 'PostsCtrl'
});
$urlRouteProvider.otherwise('home');
}]);
app/assets/javascripts/application.js
//= require angular
//= require angular-rails-templates
//= require angular-ui-router
//= require_tree .
app/controllers/application_controller.rb
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
protect_from_forgery with: :exception
respond_to :json
def angular
render 'layouts/application'
end
end
config/routes.rb
Rails.application.routes.draw do
root to: 'application#angular'
end
app/assets/javascripts/home/mainCtrl.js
angular.module('testApp').controller('MainCtrl', ['$scope', 'posts', function($scope, posts) {
$scope.posts = posts.posts;
$scope.addPost = function() {
if (!$scope.title || $scope.title === "")
return;
$scope.posts.push({
'title': $scope.title,
'link': $scope.link,
'upvotes': 0,
'comments': [
{'author': 'Some Person', 'body': 'This is a comment.', 'upvotes': 0},
{'author': 'Another Person', 'body': 'This is also a comment.', 'upvotes': 0}
]
});
$scope.title = "";
$scope.link = "";
};
$scope.incrementUpvotes = function(post) {
post.upvotes++;
};
}]);
app/assets/javascripts/posts/postsCtrl.js
angular.module('testApp').controller('PostsCtrl', ['$scope', '$stateParams', 'posts', function($scope, $stateParams, posts) {
$scope.post = posts.posts[$stateParams.id];
$scope.addComment = function() {
if($scope.body === '')
return;
$scope.post.comments.push({
'body': $scope.body,
'author': 'user',
'upvotes': 0
});
$scope.body = '';
};
}]);
app/assets/javascripts/posts/posts.js
angular.module('testApp').factory('posts', ['$http', function($http) {
var o = {
'posts': []
};
o.getAll = function() {
return $http.get('/posts.json').success(function(data) {
angular.copy(data, o.posts);
});
};
return o;
}]);
If any other code is required to help uncover the problem, please let me know and I'll supply anything requested.
