Behind the hideous Angular Rails Templates name is hiding a template management system for rails' asset pipeline and AngularJS' template views.

Basically: this will precompile your templates into the template cache, to be used by your application.
It removes the need for ajax calls to get the templates (or for you to manually set them into the dom).

Add the gem into your Gemfile

gem 'angular-rails-templates'

Then, in your application.js file, require your templates and the internal javascript file:

//= require angularjs
//= require_tree ./path_to_your_templates
//= require angular-rails-templates

The require angular-rails-templates needs to happen after requiring all your templates. Otherwise, they won't be loaded. Your template files can have the extensions .html or .ajs

In your application, add a dependency to the templates module.

var application = angular.module('myApplication', ['templates']);

Loading this module will automatically load all your templates into angular's $templateCache.
Angular uses this parameter when checking for the presence of templates before making an HTTP call.

To change the base path of the template cache name create an initialize with the following

AngularRailsTemplates.base_path = Rails.root + "/app/assets/javascripts/sub-folder"

Because of the way angular's modules work, we cannot create one templates module which would load all the templates.
Therefore, we create one module per template. It's callsed templates-<template-name>.

Also, because we cannot dynamically retrieve a list of all angular modules to find the ones matching our templates and include them, we add a root variable which contains the list of all our templates modules.
It is window.AngularRailsTemplates.

When you require angular-rails-templates, we create the templates module, which has dependencies to all the templates previously defined. Therefore including all our templates.
You can check the content of this templates module in angular-rails-templates.js.erb.

MIT License. Copyright 2013 Damien Mathieu

• Damien Mathieu [email protected]