Question

I’m having difficulty customizing the default kaminari template.

I’ve used the generator to create kaminari template files. In kaminari/paginator.html.haml:

= paginator.render do
  %nav.pagination

All I want to do is access the actionview helpers within this, like link_to, or render. I’ve searched the source code and I can’t find any incline of the helper being passed to this render method.

Essentially, being able to do this:

= paginator.render do
  %nav.pagination
    = render :partial => 'custom links'
    = link_to "custom link", custom_path

..would solve my problems.

Answer 1

I didn’t get a satisfactory answer, and so I’ll submit my own solution.

Helpers cannot be used in the paginator.render block.

So, first I generate kaminari custom template files:

rails g kaminari:views default -e haml

Create a new file kaminari/custom.html.haml with the contents:

#pagination
  = paginate custom
  = render :partial => "kaminari/custom_view_file"

Replace kaminari paginator helper (paginate @results) in your view file with:

= render :partial => "kaminari/custom", :object => @results