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Ruby

Posted by Eivind Kristoffersen
Eivind Kristoffersen
Courses Plus Student 31 Points

Custom links on Paginate

I have implemented will_paginate and I would now like to change the default pages to dates from a ruby variable. How would I go about doing that?

To be a bit more precise: my goal is to have 1 page per date and have all the data that belongs to this date on this page

controller:

...
  def show
    @waves = @location.infos.paginate(page: params[:page], per_page: 7)
    gon.watch.infos = @location.infos
    respond_with(@location)
  end
...

view

<table class= "table table-striped">
            <thead>
                <th><strong>Day</strong></th>
                <th><strong>Swell Size</strong></th>
                <th><strong>Swell Rating</strong></th>
                <th><strong>Wind Speed</strong></th>
                <th><strong>Temperature</strong></th>
            </thead>
            <tbody>
                <!-- <%= will_paginate @waves, previous_label: "Previous day", next_label: "Next day", renderer: BootstrapPagination::Rails %> -->              
                <%= will_paginate(@waves, :renderer => PaginationListLinkRenderer) %>
                <% @waves.each do |wave| %>
                <tr>
                    <td><%= Time.at(wave.day.to_i).to_s.chomp("-0800")%></td>
                    <td><%= wave.size_min%>-<%= wave.size_max%><small>ft</small></td>
                    <td><% swell = wave.swell_rating %>
<td><%= wave.wind_speed%><small>mph</small></td>
                    <td><%= wave.temperature%><small>°F</small>   </td>
...

1 Answer

Lisa Rossiter
Lisa Rossiter
3,630 Points
Lisa Rossiter
Lisa Rossiter
3,630 Points

It doesn't seem like will_paginate was built for that kind of functionality. What I would do which is not gospel by a long way is generate a list of dates by splitting out @waves. I think you should be able to chink by date some how. Then list all the dates as links for example waves/20-10-4 then use date_id or something with a where clause and use will_paginate for those results. Perhaps add an index on created_at for extra speed. Sorry if that makes no sense, just say if anything doesn't really make any sense lol.