What replaced $child method after the 0.8 angularFire update? - object

Question

I was trying to set some info in my database using the $child method in angularFire, only to realise that it had been completely removed in the 0.8 version update.
I then looked to see what the replacement would be for this by reading this:
https://www.firebase.com/blog/2014-07-30-introducing-angularfire-08.html
But that didn't shed any light on the situation.
If I got a situation like this:
$scope.validate = function() {
//--- Some validation here ---//
var userInfo = {
firstname: $('#firstname').val(),
lastname: $('#lastname').val(),
streetAddress: $('#street-address').val(),
city: $('#city').val(),
zip: $('#firstname').val(),
country: $('#country').val(),
email: $('#email').val(),
password: $('#password').val(),
confirmedPassword: $('#confirmed-password').val()
}
$scope.registerNewUser(userInfo);
},
$scope.registerNewUser = function(userInfo) {
var ref = new Firebase("https://pie-shop.firebaseio.com/");
ref.createUser({
email : userInfo.email,
password : userInfo.password
}, function(error, user) {
if (error === null) {
$scope.storeUserInfo(userInfo, user);
}
else {
console.log(error);
}
});
},
$scope.storeUserInfo = function(userInfo, user) {
var ref = new Firebase('https://pie-shop.firebaseio.com/users/' + user.uid);
var sync = $firebase(ref);
sync.$child(user.uid).set({
firstname: userInfo.firstname,
lastname: userInfo.lastname,
streetAddress: userInfo.streetAddress,
city: userInfo.streetAddress,
zip: userInfo.zip,
country: userInfo.country
});
}
Where I need to set a key that's named user.uid (which is the id of a user) and this key should contain the info from the userInfo object, how would I do it now since $child is removed? I've been searching for hours but can't find anything on this that explains how to do it in angularFire specifically.
Pre-posting note:
After checking the API documentation here it says that just using sync.$set({foo: 'bar'}) should work but in my case it doesn't do it for me either. Can someone tell me where I'm going wrong?

Answer 1

I am not entirely sure what AngularFire's pre-0.8 $child method did. But it likely was related to Firebase's regular child method.
In that case instead of this:
var ref = new Firebase(...);
var sync = $firebase(ref);
sync.$child(user.uid)...
You can also do:
var ref = new Firebase(...).child(user.uid);
var sync = $firebase(ref);
sync...