# Installing pagination problem? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 9, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-pagination-problem/125431 "2008-01-09T01:16:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![marclafia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@marclafia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marclafia)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-pagination-problem/125431/1 "2008-01-09T01:16:41Z")
I am trying to work through agile web development on rails , I have created a controller with just the following: scaffold :product I get “undefined method scaffold” error from the browswer. so i installed script/plugin install scaffolding then get the following response from the browser undefined method `paginate’ I have tried to install the following , the cursor just moves to the next line to the prompt, but there is no download activity ,there is no success or failure message or details of any kind,. script/plugin install svn://errtheblog.com/svn/plugins/classic\_pagination script/plugin install svn://errtheblog.com/svn/plugins/will\_paginate Can anyone give me any ideas on how i can proceed? I am on a windows xp machine, i have tried all this with instantrails and a 1 click installation of ruby and ‘gem install rails --include-dependencies’ of rails. Ruby version 1.8.6 (i386-mswin32) RubyGems version 0.9.4 Rails version 2.0.2 Active Record version 2.0.2 Action Pack version 2.0.2 Active Resource version 2.0.2 Action Mailer version 2.0.2 Active Support version 2.0.2 Application root C:/rails1/depot Environment development Database adapter mysql Database schema version 1 ---
**Author:** ![marclafia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@marclafia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marclafia)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 9:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-pagination-problem/125431/2 "2008-01-09T09:06:45Z")
Thanks joe. I tried installing subversion , didn’t have any luck with that. I tried to follow your advice on using restful scaffolding but wasn’t really sure what I was doing and was thinkings something else was bound to crop up later on down the line with the book. So I decided to take the cowards way out and uninstall and install rails 1.2.6. Making more progress now . ---
**Author:** ![marclafia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@marclafia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marclafia)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 2:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-pagination-problem/125431/3 "2008-01-09T02:44:56Z")
Do you have subversion installed? You might not be able to check out the plugins without it. ([http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/](http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/) ProjectDocumentList?folderID=91&expandFolder=91&folderID=74) I would avoid using the old scaffolding/pagination if I were you, you only end up replacing them with real ones, so why not miss a step and just do script/generate scaffold Product field:type field:type field:type (etc) This will make you a RESTful scaffold by default in Rails 2. Then change the “find” methods to “paginate” (add :page =\> params[:page] in there too) in the controller, and add \<%= will\_paginate(@products) %\> to the bottom of your table view There’s a reason the Rails team remove legacy features, and the automatic scaffold and pagination were both old ones that had to go. I guess we need that AWD update for Rails 2 pretty soon!! Let me know if there is anything more i can do to assist you. Joe On Jan 9, 12:16 am, Marc L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![marclafia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@marclafia](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marclafia)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2008, 4:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/installing-pagination-problem/125431/4 "2008-01-09T16:15:10Z")
Hi Marc, You’re probably best off sticking with Rails 1.2.6 because there are loads of convention changes in Rails 2 which will just cause you headaches if you’re following the old tutorials However, i would recommend that you keep in the back of your mind that several notable areas have moved on a lot since AWD was written. Check out [http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2007/12/7/rails-2-0-final-released-summary-of-features](http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2007/12/7/rails-2-0-final-released-summary-of-features) for a full list of changes. Mainly these are around the routes and RESTful controllers. It basically means you lose all your longwinded {:controller =\> ‘posts’, :action =\> ‘show’, :id =\> @post} commands and get nice flexible ones like post\_path(@post) Also when you get to the bit about AJAX, instead of using request.xhr? to checl for an AJAX request we can use: respond\_to do |format| format.js { # do something from an rjs template } format.html { #do something from an html template } format.xml { #return some xml } end etc to target the request at the right kind of document. Read carefully the chapter on routing requests and espeically the bit on REST, as this is the way Rails 2 is heading and it is very nice. But for now, just enjoy the experience of using Rails for the first time and finding all those WONDERFULLY quick and brilliant ways of doing things! Finally for a good API resource, check out [http://www.gotapi.com/rubyrails](http://www.gotapi.com/rubyrails), though it is now updated for Rails 2. I find it invaluable since it is very quick to use as a reference. On Jan 9, 8:06 am, Marc L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)