Im trying to bind the selected value in a list of radio buttons to an ng-model
I have:
The reason behind it is not working is, you are using ng-repeat & you are defining ng-model variable in it. The way ng-repeat works is, it create a new child scope(prototypically inherited) on each iteration of collection. So the ng-model which resides in ng-repeat template, belongs that newly created scope. Here ng-model="selectedOccurrence" create selectedOccurrence scope variable on each iteration of ng-repeat.
To overcome such a problem you need to follow dot rule while defining model in AngularJS
Markup
<body ng-controller="testController">
<form>
<div ng-repeat="option in occurrenceOptions track by $index">
<input type="radio" name="occurrences" ng-value="option" ng-model="model.selectedOccurrence" />
<label>{{ option }}</label>
</div>
</form>
<div>The selected value is : {{ model.selectedOccurrence }}</div>
</body>
Code
$scope.model = {}; //defined a model object
$scope.model.selectedOccurrence = 'current'; //and defined property in it
Demo Plunkr
OR Another preferred way would be using controllerAs pattern while declaring controller(use this instead of $scope inside controller).
HTML
<body ng-controller="testController as vm">
<form>
<div ng-repeat="option in vm.occurrenceOptions">
<input type="radio" name="occurrence" ng-value="option" ng-model="vm.selectedOccurrence" /><label>{{ option }}</label>
</div>
</form>
</body>
ControllerAs Demo