AngularJS - ng-repeat show one item at a time - angularjs

Question

looking for some ideas here. i have a meal plan object that contains an array of meals. only one meal can be set as primary at a time but i want the user to be able to cycle through the array of meals and mark a meal as primary. i am stuck trying to figure out if ngrepeat makes sense here or ngswitch or ngshow. any thoughts or samples would be highly appreciated!
I have tried multiple approaches with no luck.
thanks

Answer 1

You could cycle through the meals by index of the meal and have a button to choose the meal like this:
http://jsfiddle.net/c6RZK/
var app = angular.module('mealsApp',[]);
app.controller('MealsCtrl',function($scope) {
$scope.meals = [
{name:'Meatloaf'},
{name:'Tacos'},
{name:'Spaghetti'}
];
$scope.meal_index = 0;
$scope.meal = {};
$scope.next = function() {
if ($scope.meal_index >= $scope.meals.length -1) {
$scope.meal_index = 0;
}
else {
$scope.meal_index ++;
}
};
$scope.choose = function(meal) {
$scope.meal = meal;
}
});
HTML
<div ng-app="mealsApp" ng-controller="MealsCtrl">
<div ng-repeat="m in meals">
<div ng-if="meal_index == $index">
<strong>{{m.name}}</strong>
<button ng-click="choose(m)">Choose</button>
</div>
</div>
<hr>
<button ng-click="next()">Next</button>
<hr>Your Choice: {{meal.name}}
</div>

Answer 2

You could just attach a property to the plan, with a flag that says whether or not it's the primary plan.
Here's a sample implementation:
$scope.plans = [{name:"One"}, {name:"Two"}, {name:"Three"}];
$scope.selectPlan = function(plan) {
for(var i = 0, l = $scope.plans.length; i < l; i++) {
$scope.plans[i].primary = false;
if($scope.plans[i] === plan) {
$scope.plans[i].primary = true;
}
}
};
HTML:
<ul>
<li ng-click="selectPlan(plan)" ng-repeat="plan in plans" ng-class="{primary: plan.primary}"><a href>{{plan.name}}</a></li>
</ul>
If you'd rather not attach properties you could use something like a selected index property on your controller.