How to use angular resource with rails API

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I want to use angular resource to interact with my rails backend, the build-in $resource service is not fully compatible with rails API, like PUT is not support by default, I have to add custom action "update" with PUT method.

This problem with this approach is I have to add update action for every resource to make angular resource align with the rails API backend.

Is this the good approach to go?

I also found a angular resource wrapper angularjs-rails-resource, which provide a update method with PUT http verb, but it seems like the way how it handle parameters passing is a bit odd. for example, it wrap the parameter with a "undefined" key.

Parameters: {"undefined"=>{"username"=>"xxxx"}, "version"=>"1", "id"=>"88"}

So, the question is what is the best practice to use angular resource with rails API?

daviddan · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-17 17:00:53Z

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If you don't want the overhead of restangular and just want to add the update method to every resource, you can simply add a decorator to the $resource service.

Something like this:

.config(function ($provide) {
    $provide.decorator('$resource', function ($delegate) {

        //Store the delegate, so we can access it later
        var resourceFactory = $delegate;

        //Add the actions that you want added to each Resource here
        var default_actions = {'update': {method: 'PUT'}};

        return function (url, paramDefaults, actions) {
            actions = angular.extend({}, default_actions, actions);
            return resourceFactory(url, paramDefaults, actions);
        };

    });
})

answered Apr 17, 2014 at 17:00

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fuyi Over a year ago

Thank you, I think this is the easiest way to add default actions to all resources

fuyi Over a year ago

How would I add method which return $resource instance, but not making a ajax call to backend?

Nikola M. · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-04 15:31:39Z

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Use angular-rails-resource. It is optimized for the Rails philosophy, which means that you don't have to juggle around with request/response format by yourself. And it supports a lot of other cool features, like nested resources, automatic name conversion, etc...

answered Dec 4, 2015 at 15:31

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jalkoby · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-17 13:46:50Z

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Take a look on restangular. It's really a nice solution for interacting with rest api.

answered Apr 17, 2014 at 13:46

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fuyi Over a year ago

Thanks, restangular is a interesting extension of $resource

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