As I understand it, what he wants to do is not really pagination. Pagination is users?page=1 but what he wants is to be at user/10 and when he clicks next, it goes to user/11, when previous, user/9.
--Lasse 2010/2/15 EvanC <[email protected]> > Hi Bigos, > > You aren't using the view helper will_paginate gives you. It's as > simple as: > > @people = Person.paginate :page => params[:page] > > And in your view: > > <%= will_paginate @posts %> > > This will automatically generate the 'Previous' and 'Next' links. For > further questions there is a dedicated will_paginate group at > http://groups.google.com/group/will_paginate -- they'll be able to > help you better! > > -- Evan > > On Feb 15, 2:53 pm, Bigos <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have a Persons table created with scaffold. I was trying to flick > > between records by clicking on Previous and Next links. I was > > struggling to understand will_paginate, and finally came up with > > following solution, and I'm wondering if it could be done better. > > Would it be better to have one query to a database returning previous > > current and next record instead having two? > > > > @person_previous = Person.paginate :all, :page => params[:page], > > :order => 'id DESC', :per_page => 1, :conditions => "id < > > #{params[:id]}" > > @person_next = Person.paginate :all, :page => params[:page], > > :order => 'id ASC', :per_page => 1, :conditions => "id > > > #{params[:id]}" > > > > <% @person_previous.each do |el|%> > > <%= link_to 'Previous', el %> > > <% end %> > > > > <% @person_next.each do |el|%> > > <%= link_to 'Next', el %> > > <% end %> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
