Question

Logging rides alerts, logging users doesn’t.

I can’t figure out what’s going on here… There’s no network errors. Both data/users.json and data/rides.json are reaching the client fine.

$.ajax({
  url: "data/users.json",
  dataType: 'json',
  async: false,
  success: function(data){
    users = data.users
    alert('Logging Uers');
}});

$.ajax({
  url: "data/rides.json",
  dataType: 'json',
  async: false,
  success: function(data){
        alert('Logging rides');
    rides = data.rides
}});

Answer 1

Maybe users = data.users it’s throwing an exception (caused by a possibly undefined data). Did you tried to comment that line?

Also, you should implement an error callback:

$.ajax({
    url: "data/users.json",
    dataType: 'json',
    async: false,
    success: function(data){
        //users = data.users;
        alert('Logging Users');
    },
    error: function() {
        alert("ERROR");
        console.log(arguments);
    }
});