Has And Belongs To Many and Pagination

Rails
1

I’m struggling with the issue of pagination and many to many
relationships.

I have products and categories (a many to many relationship.)

When I go to a category page, I wish to load all products associated
with that category and have pagination of the products.

@category_products = @category.products gives me all the products
associated with the category however, when I try to setup pagination:

@category_product_pages, @category_products = paginate :products,
:per_page => 10

I get back all the products no matter what category I’m in. I’m assuming
it is because :products is just returning all products in the database.
What should I be using instead?

Help! (this is my third day on rails).

2

I’m no expect, but I’ve done things like:

@category_product_pages, @category_products = paginate :products,
:per_page => 10, :conditions => [“category = ?”, @category.id]

christian ma wrote:

I’m struggling with the issue of pagination and many to many
relationships.

I have products and categories (a many to many relationship.)

When I go to a category page, I wish to load all products associated
with that category and have pagination of the products.

@category_products = @category.products gives me all the products
associated with the category however, when I try to setup pagination:

@category_product_pages, @category_products = paginate :products,
:per_page => 10

I get back all the products no matter what category I’m in. I’m assuming
it is because :products is just returning all products in the database.
What should I be using instead?

Help! (this is my third day on rails).