Paginating Associations
It's no real secret that the default Rails pagination helpers are kind of awful. Sure, you can use them, but I wouldn't recommend it if you expect to scale. Instead, go snag yourself the wonderful paginating_find plugin. And then, if you're going to be using them with your model associations, whip up an association extension like this:
module PaginationExtension
def paginate(current = 1, size = 10, options = {})
options[:page] = {:current => current, :size => size}
find(:all, options)
end
end
Now just extend the has_many association on your City class and you can call city.bars.paginate(2) to get the second 10-element page of bars associated with your city.
class City < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :bars, :extend => PaginationExtension
end
city.bars.paginate(2)
The good bars are all on the first page though, so consider yourself warned.
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