ui-refresh with jq-ui="buttonset" causing 'cannot call methods on button prior to initialization' exception

[jamie-pate]

Due to the dynamic nature of angularjs and ng-repeat the buttonset contents would sometimes be modified. Once the ui-jq directive called $(elm).buttonset('refresh') (via the ui-refresh mechanism) it would throw cannot call methods on button prior to initialization; attempted to call method 'widget'

After much research I determined that the radioGroup() function was not checking to make sure that all the buttons it found were in fact buttons before calling jqueryui methods on them.

My work-around simply removes the constraint via Monkey-patching:

(function($) {
    'use strict';
    var orig_button = $.fn.button;
    $.fn.button = function(options) {
        if (!$(this).is(':ui-button')) {
            orig_button.call(this);
        }
        orig_button.call(options);
    };
})(jQuery);

I also filed a bug with jquery ui here: http://bugs.jqueryui.com/ticket/9842
but I have been unable to reproduce this bug by hand.
(my efforts so far are here: http://jsfiddle.net/34Cpk/3/ )

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