# Undefined method \`paginate' **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 14, 2009, 11:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/undefined-method-paginate/172107 "2009-07-14T23:04:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paulbutcher)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 11:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/undefined-method-paginate/172107/1 "2009-07-14T23:04:08Z")
How come I get this error? I have the same setup on my local dev machine as the server where I get the error, using the will\_paginate gem and require in env. The server uses the same version 2.2.2. And the same rails version and everything. ---
**Author:** ![paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paulbutcher)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 2:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/undefined-method-paginate/172107/2 "2009-07-15T02:15:24Z")
How is your server configured? Mongrel, passenger? Have you vendored your gems? Cheers, Nicholas On Jul 14, 5:04 pm, Pål Bergström [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paulbutcher)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 2:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/undefined-method-paginate/172107/3 "2009-07-15T02:38:41Z")
It’s a common issue depending on how your setup exists. If you are having a lot of difficulty with it, you can install the plugin instead which will fix the error you are having usually 95% of the time. ---
**Author:** ![paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paulbutcher)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 8:47am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/undefined-method-paginate/172107/4 "2009-07-15T08:47:58Z")
Älphä Blüë wrote: > It’s a common issue depending on how your setup exists. If you are > having a lot of difficulty with it, you can install the plugin instead > which will fix the error you are having usually 95% of the time. I solved it. I just needed to create a local gem and then install will\_paginate. It was on the server, I think, but didn’t work. Or maybe it wasn’t. Anyway, when I do “gem list” I get a long, long list of gems, and one of them is “will\_paginate”. ---
**Author:** ![paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paulbutcher)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 9:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/undefined-method-paginate/172107/5 "2009-07-15T09:58:07Z")
BTW, if your gem is just plain will\_paginate, it is VERY old. Unless I’m mistaken, development has moved to GitHub, and the preferred gem is now mislav-will\_paginate. –Matt J. On Jul 15, 2:47 am, Pål Bergström [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paulbutcher)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 10:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/undefined-method-paginate/172107/6 "2009-07-15T10:01:27Z")
Matt J. wrote: > BTW, if your gem is just plain will\_paginate, it is VERY old. Unless > I’m mistaken, development has moved to GitHub, and the preferred gem > is now mislav-will\_paginate. > > –Matt J. > > On Jul 15, 2:47�am, P�l Bergstr�m [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) I tried that and it didn’t work. “could not find gem mislav-will\_paginate locally or in a repository” ---
**Author:** ![paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paulbutcher)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 5:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/undefined-method-paginate/172107/7 "2009-07-15T17:59:06Z")
post the message error please, for analyse. case the problem is to require your gem will\_paginate, do you need require this will\_paginate in the archive enviroment.rb, ex: require ‘will\_paginate’ Att. Paulo S. 2009/7/14 PÃ¥l Bergström [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > > – Paulo Roberto Webdesigner Fortaleza - CE ---
**Author:** ![paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paulbutcher)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 6:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/undefined-method-paginate/172107/8 "2009-07-15T18:03:32Z")
Paulo S. wrote: > post the message error please, for analyse. > > case the problem is to require your gem will\_paginate, do you need > require > this will\_paginate in the archive enviroment.rb, > ex: require ‘will\_paginate’ I have require ‘will\_paginate’ I also had to uninstall the previous ‘will\_paginate’ gem. Now it works. ---
**Author:** ![paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@paulbutcher](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/paulbutcher)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 10:23am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/undefined-method-paginate/172107/9 "2009-07-15T10:23:10Z")
Matt J. wrote: > BTW, if your gem is just plain will\_paginate, it is VERY old. Unless > I’m mistaken, development has moved to GitHub, and the preferred gem > is now mislav-will\_paginate. > > –Matt J. > > On Jul 15, 2:47�am, P�l Bergstr�m [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) It worked with “sudo gem install mislav-will\_paginate -s [http://gems.github.com](http://gems.github.com)” Now I got mislav-will\_paginate in my gem list. Do I need to make any changes in my code?