#51 will_paginate

Jun 29, 2007 | 6 minutes | Plugins

In edge rails (soon to be Rails 2.0), the built-in pagination has been moved into a plugin: classic_pagination. I recommend jumping over to the will_paginate plugin as shown in this episode.

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Resources

will_paginate (svn://errtheblog.com/svn/plugins/will_paginate)
classic_pagination (svn://errtheblog.com/svn/plugins/classic_pagination)

          models/product.rb
        
def self.search(search, page)
  paginate :per_page => 5, :page => page,
           :conditions => ['name like ?', "%#{search}%"],
           :order => 'name'
end

          products_controller.rb
        
def index
  @products = Product.search(params[:search], params[:page])
end

          products/index.rhtml
        
<%= will_paginate @products %>