Ajax Support

I don't think the plugin itself should handle any ajax calls.

simply use unobtrusive javascript and you can achieve the same result in less than 5 minutes without hacking anything ;)

http://railsontherun.com/2007/9/...

And I'm pretty sure you can probably do the same with Prototype only, Mislav?

-Matt

Hi, I updated my views_helper.rb with the lines from will_paginate_with_ajax_calls.diff. Iam not able to get the pagination working. So many errors. I attached my view_helpers.rb. Plz let me know where Iam missing.

The lowpro.js approach works great if you only have one pagination area on a page. But I have a couple of cases where I'd like to have more than one paginator on the page which would need to be handled via different actions. And will_paginate uses the params from the current template to generate the URL used by the paginator. So I am stuck with one action for all paginators and no way to differentiate between them.

Can you give us a way to override the URL used to create the links in will_paginator?

@Tom

I had this same problem and I modified the will paginate code to take a url in the options and it's working great. In my template file I do something like:

<%= will_paginate @guides, :url => {:action => 'show_guides', :login => params[:login] }, :class => 'author_guides' %>

I had to make a slight change in the LinkRenderer#page_link_or_span method:

def page_link_or_span(page, span_class, text)

unless page

@template.content_tag :span, text, :class => span_class

else

1. page links should preserve GET/POST parameters

if @options[:url]

@options[:url][:page] = page

@template.link_to text, @options[:url]

else

@template.link_to text, @template.params.merge(param => page != 1 ? page : nil)

end

end

end

I solved it with little patch to LinkRenderer.page_link_or_span()

    def page_link_or_span(page, span_class, text = nil)
      text ||= page.to_s
      classnames = Array[*span_class]

      if page and page != current_page
        if @options[:update] then
          @template.link_to_remote text, {:url => url_for(page), :method => :get, :update => @options[:update]}, {:rel => rel_value(page), :class => classnames[1] }
        else
          @template.link_to text, url_for(page), :rel => rel_value(page), :class => classnames[1]
        end
      else
      @template.content_tag :span, text, :class => classnames.join(' ')
      end
    end

and then just use <%= will_paginate @permits, :update => :entries %>