How can we use rails routes with angularjs in a DRY way?

Question

First of all,I would say sorry for my broken English and the broken codes...(many words here come from google translation...so, I\'m afraid that I can\'t make myself clear...so,

Answer 1

Apart that your description of the question is very complicated (tons of code), I think you missed the point of REST API concept.

You are mixing your Rails backend resources (and its routing) with client-side routing. This is wrong IMHO. Your frontend app routes shouldn't be jumping (shadowing) over REST routes. If you are fetching users resource (for example GET /users/5.json) you shouldn't navigate your client to /tp/users/show. Your REST and client-side routes are two separate, independent abstractions.

Your client-side routes should be like

/
/userprofile
/dashboard
/articles/2013?page=4

And your Controllers sitting on those routes should use your resource services to fetch required data from REST API like this:

angular.module('myApp').controller 'UserProfileController', ($scope, userResource) ->
  $scope.user = userResource.query({id: SOME_ID})

angular.module('myApp.resources').factory 'userResource', ($resource) ->
  params = {
    id: '@id'
    subItem: '@subItem'
    subItemId: '@subItemId'
  }

  actions = {
    query: {
      method: 'GET'
      params: {}
      isArray: true
    }
    ban: {
      method: 'POST'
      params: {banned: true}
    }
  }

  return $resource('/api-1.0/users/:id/:subItem/:subItemId', params, actions)