I'm trying to build a activity stream in my rails/angular application using the Public Activity gem and the Railscast. It's a pretty easy set up on the rails side, but I'm having some trouble with the angular side of things.
I've tracked my movie model. So when a movie is added it's recorded as a new activity. I've created a template, service and controller (on the angular side) to display the activity.
The template,
%ul{"ng-repeat" => "activitie in activities"}
%li {{ activitie }}
When I view the template in my app it displays like this (which is expected).
{"id":2,"trackable_id":5,"trackable_type":"Movie","owner_id":1,"owner_type":"User","key":"movie.create","parameters":{},"recipient_id":null,"recipient_type":null,"created_at":"2015-12-30T11:55:06.766Z","updated_at":"2015-12-30T11:55:06.766Z"}
Ofcourse this is not how I want to display the data, but here it gets tricky. In the railscast Ryan adds this code to his template,
<% @activities.each do |activity| %>
<div class="activity">
<%= link_to activity.owner.name, activity.owner if activity.owner %>
<%= render_activity activity %>
</div>
<% end %>
So he uses activity.owner.name to present the name. But I have no idea how to get this result in Angular. The owner_id is the id of the user that added the movie, but I don't know how to display it through Angular.
You can join with the users table to incorporate the users name.
PublicActivity::Activity.
joins("INNER JOIN users ON users.id = activities.owner_id").
select("activities.*, users.name")
Now you should be able to call activity.name.