Two, independant paginations on one page

Rails
1

I am a college student and just getting into the rails world. So please
excuse me if the answer is simple… but I have RTFM and searched google
many times to no avail.

Alright I am making a simple blog like site. The site has two columns of
content: stories and comic(images). Now I want each to have a pagination
so you can click more_stories and it displays more stories but leaves
the comics unchanged. Same if they hit “more_comics”.

I stated with the default pagination but quickly abandoned it in favor
of will_paginate. The old pagination would advance both if you clicked
either more.

It seems that will_paginate should work as you can feed it the page
number you want it to be on, but i have yet to get it to work.

I use a link_to that just calls index and says if it was the story or
image more that was clicked and if it was up or down.

def index

if @stories.nil?
  @p_image=1
  @p_story= 1
   @stories = Story.paginate :page => @p_story
   @images = Image.paginate :page => @p_image
end

if params[:type] == "story"

   if params[:call] == "up"
      @p_story =  @p_story + 1
    end

  if params[:call] == "down"
        @p_story = @p_story - 1
  end

  @p_image = params[:iv]
  @stories = Story.paginate :page => @p_story
end

if params[:type] == "image"

    if params[:call] == "up"
      @p_image =  @p_image + 1
    end

  if params[:call] == "down"
        @p_image = @p_image - 1
  end


    @p_story = params[ :sv ]
    @images = Image.paginate :page => @p_image
end

end

Now i am clearly missing something as it wont go past a value of 2. and
still resets when I switch between them.

thank you in advance.

2

Uh, @stories is going to be nil everytime - HTTP is stateless,
@stories is an instance variable the gets set every time the
controller is called. Why aren’t you just paginating directly from
the page number, and then just using -1/+1 values of the current page
for your links in the view?

On Oct 28, 9:14 pm, Chris T. [email protected]