Module | ActionController::Pagination
In: | lib/action_controller/pagination.rb

### Action Pack pagination for Active Record collections

The Pagination module aids in the process of paging large collections of Active Record objects. It offers macro-style automatic fetching of your model for multiple views, or explicit fetching for single actions. And if the magic isn’t flexible enough for your needs, you can create your own paginators with a minimal amount of code.

The Pagination module can handle as much or as little as you wish. In the controller, have it automatically query your model for pagination; or, if you prefer, create Paginator objects yourself.

Pagination is included automatically for all controllers.

For help rendering pagination links, see ActionView::Helpers::PaginationHelper.

#### Automatic pagination for every action in a controller

      class PersonController < ApplicationController
        model :person

        paginate :people, :order => 'last_name, first_name',
                 :per_page => 20

        # ...
      end

Each action in this controller now has access to a `@people` instance variable, which is an ordered collection of model objects for the current page (at most 20, sorted by last name and first name), and a `@person_pages` Paginator instance. The current page is determined by the `params[:page]` variable.

#### Pagination for a single action

      def list
        @person_pages, @people =
          paginate :people, :order => 'last_name, first_name'
      end

Like the previous example, but explicitly creates `@person_pages` and `@people` for a single action, and uses the default of 10 items per page.

#### Custom/"classic" pagination

      def list
        @person_pages = Paginator.new self, Person.count, 10, params[:page]
        @people = Person.find :all, :order => 'last_name, first_name',
                              :limit  =>  @person_pages.items_per_page,
                              :offset =>  @person_pages.current.offset
      end

Explicitly creates the paginator from the previous example and uses Paginator#to_sql to retrieve `@people` from the model.

### Methods

count_collection_for_pagination find_collection_for_pagination paginate

### Classes and Modules

Module ActionController::Pagination::ClassMethods
Class ActionController::Pagination::Paginator

### Constants

OPTIONS | = | Hash.new |  | A hash holding options for controllers using macro-style pagination
DEFAULT_OPTIONS | = | { :class_name => nil, :singular_name => nil, :per_page => 10, :conditions => nil, :order_by => nil, :order => nil, :join => nil, :joins => nil, :count => nil, :include => nil, :select => nil, :parameter => 'page' |  | The default options for pagination

### Public Instance methods

paginate(collection_id, options={})

Returns a paginator and a collection of Active Record model instances for the paginator’s current page. This is designed to be used in a single action; to automatically paginate multiple actions, consider ClassMethods#paginate.

`options` are:

`:singular_name`: | the singular name to use, if it can’t be inferred by

                           singularizing the collection name

`:class_name`: | the class name to use, if it can’t be inferred by camelizing the singular name
`:per_page`: | the maximum number of items to include in a single page. Defaults to 10
`:conditions`: | optional conditions passed to Model.find(:all, *params) and Model.count
`:order`: | optional order parameter passed to Model.find(:all, *params)
`:order_by`: | (deprecated, used :order) optional order parameter passed to Model.find(:all, *params)
`:joins`: | optional joins parameter passed to Model.find(:all, *params) and Model.count
`:join`: | (deprecated, used :joins or :include) optional join parameter passed to Model.find(:all, *params) and Model.count
`:include`: | optional eager loading parameter passed to Model.find(:all, *params) and Model.count
`:select`: | :select parameter passed to Model.find(:all, *params)
`:count`: | parameter passed as :select option to Model.count(*params)

### Protected Instance methods

count_collection_for_pagination(model, options)

Returns the total number of items in the collection to be paginated for the `model` and given `conditions`. Override this method to implement a custom counter.

find_collection_for_pagination(model, options, paginator)

Returns a collection of items for the given `model` and +options[conditions]+, ordered by +options[order]+, for the current page in the given `paginator`. Override this method to implement a custom finder.

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