# Linking to the paginated items from search results **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [August 2, 2006, 11:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/linking-to-the-paginated-items-from-search-results/101028 "2006-08-02T23:51:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![adrian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/82dd89/32.png) [@adrian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adrian)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2006, 11:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/linking-to-the-paginated-items-from-search-results/101028/1 "2006-08-02T23:51:23Z")
Using Ferret for searching, I’ve got results that I need to link to. Which is fine, except for that they’re displayed on paginated pages using Rails paginate function - so it’s not like I can’t get it from the database or anything else. Anyone have any ideas on how to go about this? It’s not so much a coding problem as a theory problem, and I can’t even think of how to begin. Thanks in advance! ---
**Author:** ![adrian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/82dd89/32.png) [@adrian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adrian)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 2:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/linking-to-the-paginated-items-from-search-results/101028/2 "2006-08-03T14:23:21Z")
I think there are really only two options: 1. Store the search results in the session. 2. Use ferret’s :num\_docs and :first\_doc to paginate the results for each page. NOTE: These options are going to change to :limit and :offset to be more railish in a future ferret release. I am currently doing option 2 on my site. However, I asked a similar question to this group a while back and one of the interesting points someone made was that when you search through results it can be annoying if they shift around, so in that case option 1 would be preferred. Good Luck, Tom On 8/2/06, Adrian F. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) – Tom D. [http://atomgiant.com](http://atomgiant.com) [http://gifthat.com](http://gifthat.com) ---
**Author:** ![adrian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/82dd89/32.png) [@adrian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adrian)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 2:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/linking-to-the-paginated-items-from-search-results/101028/3 "2006-08-03T14:23:29Z")
On 8/3/06, Tom D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > someone made was that when you search through results it can be > annoying if they shift around, so in that case option 1 would be > preferred. > > Good Luck, > Tom Hi Tom, Just curious. What do you mean when you say the results shift around? Is this something I need to fix in Ferret? Cheers, Dave ---
**Author:** ![adrian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/82dd89/32.png) [@adrian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adrian)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 10:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/linking-to-the-paginated-items-from-search-results/101028/4 "2006-08-03T22:08:06Z")
Hi Dave, Actually, I meant if you rerun the query between page requests and the index changes then your search results may legitimately be different. For example if someone is sorting on created\_at DESC and any entries get added in between pages then some of thre results that were just show on say page 1 will now be in page 2 since those new entries will be returned as well. If that doesn’t make sense, let me know and I’ll try again. For some reason I found it very difficult to type that out in words 🙂 Tom On 8/2/06, David B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > question to this group a while back and one of the interesting points > > Is this something I need to fix in Ferret? > > Cheers, > Dave > > * * * > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) – Tom D. [http://atomgiant.com](http://atomgiant.com) [http://gifthat.com](http://gifthat.com) ---
**Author:** ![adrian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/82dd89/32.png) [@adrian](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/adrian)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 3:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/linking-to-the-paginated-items-from-search-results/101028/5 "2006-08-04T03:55:02Z")
On 8/4/06, Tom D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > If that doesn’t make sense, let me know and I’ll try again. For some > reason I found it very difficult to type that out in words 🙂 > > Tom Thanks Tom. I understand perfectly.