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Asked: 2026-06-06T18:27:21+00:00

Will_paginate plugin allows whatever ActiveRecord to get paginated. Indeed, a paginate method is available

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Will_paginate plugin allows whatever ActiveRecord to get paginated.

Indeed, a paginate method is available within this ActiveRecord. For example, if I want to paginate Order, I do:

Order.paginate page:params[:page], order: 'created_at desc'

How paginate method is created? Is this the Will_paginate plugin that does some kind of: “taking ActiveRecord definition and injecting a paginate method into?

Furthermore, to keep this example, if the above assumption is correct:

How to avoid conflict with the plugin if for whatever reason, Order has defined a proper paginate with a totally different purpose?

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  1. Editorial Team

    will_paginate uses the extend method to add modules to the ActiveRecord::Base class. See https://github.com/mislav/will_paginate/blob/master/lib/will_paginate/active_record.rb#L202

    If Order also has a method called paginate then it will override the ActiveRecord::Base#paginate method.

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