Controller actions being executed as soon as the page loads - ruby-on-rails

Question

I'm using rails with devise, and angular with ng-file-upload.
I have two problems. first as soon as I go to the root of the website a POST request is executed to try to sign in the user with results in a 500 status code response.
It says it can't find the users_url, which makes sense because I don't have in my routes, what is weird is that request being fired.
Also using the ng-file-upload, when I load a dialog to upload a file, the dialog loads and it sends the request to upload the file directly. With no wait in between.
Why is this happening?
THis are the differents files being excuted in all this actions:
app.coffee
app = angular.module("inkorporated", ['ui.router', 'templates', 'rails', 'Devise', 'ngFileUpload', 'ngDialog'])
.config(['$stateProvider','$urlRouterProvider',
($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider)->
$stateProvider
.state('home', {
url: '/home'
templateUrl: 'home/_home.html'
controller: 'SearchCtrl'
})
.state('login', {
url: '/login'
templateUrl: 'auth/_login.html'
controller: 'AuthCtrl'
onEnter: ['$state', 'Auth', ($state, Auth)->
Auth.currentUser().then ->
$state.go('home')
return
return
]
})
.state('register', {
url: '/register'
templateUrl: 'auth/_register.html'
controller: 'AuthCtrl'
onEnter: ['$state', 'Auth', ($state, Auth)->
Auth.currentUser().then ->
$state.go('home')
return
return
]
})
.state('user', {
url: '/user/{id}'
templateUrl: 'users/_user.html'
controller: 'UserCtrl'
})
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise('home')
return
])
navCtrl.coffee
angular.module("inkorporated").controller('NavCtrl', ['$scope', '$state', 'Auth',
($scope, $state, Auth)->
$scope.config = {
headers: {
'X-CSRF-TOKEN': $('meta[name=csrf-token]').attr("content")
}
}
$scope.signedIn = Auth.isAuthenticated
$scope.logout = Auth.logout
Auth.currentUser().then(
(user)->
if !!user.email
$scope.user = user
else
$scope.user = {}
return
)
$scope.$on('devise:new-registration',
(e, user)->
$scope.user = user
return
)
$scope.$on('devise:login',
(e, user)->
if !!user.email
$scope.user = user
else
$scope.user = {}
return
)
$scope.$on('devise:logout',
(e, user)->
$scope.user = {}
return
)
return
])
avatarCtrl.coffee
angular.module("inkorporated").controller("AvatarCtrl", ["$scope", "$stateParams", "Upload", "ngDialog"
($scope, $stateParams, Upload, ngDialog)->
$scope.$watch('avatar',
(avatar)->
$scope.upload($scope.avatar)
return
)
$scope.upload = (avatar)->
Upload.upload({
url: "users/avatar",
fields: { 'id': $stateParams.id }
file: avatar
})
.success(
(data, status, headers, config)->
$scope.closeThisDialog()
return
)
return
return
])
application.html.haml
!!!
%html{ "ng-app" => "inkorporated" }
%head
%meta{:content => "text/html; charset=UTF-8", "http-equiv" => "Content-Type"}/
%meta{ name: "viewport", content: "width=device-width, initial-scale=1" }/
%title Inkorporated
= stylesheet_link_tag 'application', media: 'all'
= javascript_include_tag 'application'
= csrf_meta_tags
%body
.container-fluid
%header{ "ng-include" => "'nav/_nav.html'" }
#page-content.container
%ui-view

Answer 1

From what I can see here, I think there's a very good chance that the $watch is being triggered by a model change on avatar when your dialog opens. You can pretty easily remove that watch and make that function more event driven. Looking at the ng-file-uplpad docs, it looks like there's a directive attribute to specify calling a custom function like ngf-change="myFunction()"
$scope.$watch('avatar', function(avatar) {
$scope.upload($scope.avatar);
});
For the second part of your question, I'm curious to see what code is in the SearchCtrl being called on the landing page, that POST request could easily be related to something in there