Article Pagination using kaminari

[morganp]

Pagination for the all articles view, using the kaminari gem.

[jordanbyron]

I've never used kaminari before. How did you hear about it? Has anyone had any experience using kaminari before? I've used will_paginate and it's always worked for me.

I'm especially curious how it will work if we try infinite scrolling.

On Jun 27, 2011, at 5:35 PM, morganp wrote:

Pagination for the all articles view, using the kaminari gem.

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https://github.com/rmu/flow/pull/26

[carlosantoniodasilva]

I've heard about it, read a bit its code, and it sounds quite nice. There is also a railscast about it. It is basically a bunch of scopes with some view helpers if I remember correctly.

I'd use it in new projects mainly because will_paginate haven't had any update for a few months - the Rails 3 compatible version is still pre. So, if we don't want to build this pagination from scratch, I think it's the way to go.

About the infinite scrolling, I believe it should work the same way as will paginate, or we could just use limit + offset by hand and increment a page param - sth like that.

[jordanbyron]

Cool. Well that is good enough for me to merge it.

I've wanted to move away from will_paginate for a while now, but just haven't done the research to find something that works. AKA I'm lazy.

[morganp]

I first saw it mentioned here. It seemed to be that will_paginate has not been maintained for a while and has not had an official (non pre) release for rails 3. My understanding is that the infinite scrolling is an ajax layer that just calls the next page and appends the contents to the current page, so should probably work ok with kaminari.