How to have a default option in Angular.js select box

Answer 1

My solution to this was use html to hardcode my default option. Like so:

In HAML:

%select{'ng-model' => 'province', 'ng-options' => "province as province for province in summary.provinces", 'chosen' => "chosen-select", 'data-placeholder' => "BC & ON"}
  %option{:value => "", :selected => "selected"}
    BC & ON

In HTML: