Part 1 of a tutorial that connects AngularJS to a Rails backend. This post focuses on creating a base Rails server application that our AngularJS front end will later connect to, it assumes that you are familiar with Rails already and have all the rails dependencies installed. The next post is Installing ng-boilerplate, and serving up via Rails. You can also find the index of the posts in the tutorial.
There is a newer, rails 4 and newer angularJS, version of this tutorial. It is also more complete and has a nicer UI that doesn’t use modal windows, which is probably a better choice for anyone starting fresh today. The first page in that tutorial is here, and the index here. Continue reading