# Pagination

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pagination/172394>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 21, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pagination/172394 "2009-07-21T00:36:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![tanya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@tanya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tanya)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pagination/172394/1 "2009-07-21T00:36:46Z")

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Hi,  
I am new to rails and developing a networking site.I am finding  
difficulty with pagination since i am working on rails 2.0.0. can  
somebody help me with the definition of paginate function.  
Thanx

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**Author:** ![tanya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@tanya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tanya)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 6:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pagination/172394/2 "2009-07-21T06:27:17Z")

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tanya wrote:

> Hi,  
> I am new to rails and developing a networking site.I am finding  
> difficulty with pagination since i am working on rails 2.0.0. can  
> somebody help me with the definition of paginate function.  
> Thanx

Try will\_paginate plugin

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**Author:** ![tanya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@tanya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tanya)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 3:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pagination/172394/3 "2009-07-21T15:13:32Z")

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If this is a new project, _DO NOT_ start with an old Rails version.  
You’ll only run into trouble, and bugs that have been fixed already.

–Matt J.

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**Author:** ![tanya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@tanya](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/tanya)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2009, 4:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pagination/172394/4 "2009-07-21T16:31:21Z")

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Paged scopes seems interesting. I have not tried it, but I expect to  
do it soon.  
Here is the link  
[http://code.matthewhollingworth.net/](http://code.matthewhollingworth.net/)