Question

I’m trying to get will paginate to link to my nested route instead of the regular posts variable. I know I’m supposed to pass some params to paginate but I don’t know how to pass them.

Basically there is an array stored in @posts and the other param paginate has access to is category_id.

The nested route is /category/1/posts but hitting next and previous on will paginate returns a url like this posts?page=1&category_id=7.

 <%= will_paginate @most_recent_posts "What do I do here?" %>

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This is the result of Yannis’s answer:

In your controller you can do:

@posts = @category.posts.paginate

And in your view:

<%= will_paginate(@post) %>

Doing this comes up with the following URL

posts?page=2&post_category_id=athlete_management

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routes.rb #there are more routes but these are the relevant ones

map.resources :posts
map.resources :post_categories, :has_many => :posts

solution

 map.resources :post_categories do |post_category|
   post_category.resources :posts
  end
  map.resources :posts 

Had to declare the resource after the block

Thanks stephen!

Answer 1

Parachuting in here on this old question because I encountered the same issue.

I had pretty much exactly the same problem. I followed the responders’ advice that something funky was going on with the routes. I dug into the routes and found (translated to suit your situation):

resources :posts
resources :categories do
  resources :posts
end

This made it so that calling category_posts_path returned (as expected) /category/1/posts.

However, it’s of pivotal importance to realize that will_paginate calls something that resembles url_for, which works “backwards” from the routes to find the first route that matches the parameters.

Since resources :posts appears above the nested route, it sees that that one satisfies the requirements and just inserts category_id=1 was a query string.

The reason it worked “out of the box” for everyone else was because they didn’t have the nested resource separately listed as a standalone resource.

Remove that and you should be fine!