will paginate, nested routes, ruby, rails
- by Sam
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?" %>
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
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!
