# User specifiy number of records returned

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-specifiy-number-of-records-returned/132918>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 25, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-specifiy-number-of-records-returned/132918 "2008-03-25T20:04:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![newrubygirl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e274bd/32.png) [@newrubygirl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newrubygirl)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-specifiy-number-of-records-returned/132918/1 "2008-03-25T20:04:27Z")

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I’m sure this is obvious and I’m just over thinking it, but I’ve got a  
page that I’ve set up to return 25 records by default. How can I set  
this up so that a user can select more records to view using either a  
link\_to or a from with select options? Then, how do I feed those params  
to the query that yields the results?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![newrubygirl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e274bd/32.png) [@newrubygirl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newrubygirl)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-specifiy-number-of-records-returned/132918/2 "2008-03-25T20:33:14Z")

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DHU! Figured it out…

\<%= link\_to “Show 50 records”, {:action =\> “report”, :records =\> 50 }  
%\>

@object\_records = object.find(:all, :limit =\> params[:records])

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**Author:** ![newrubygirl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/e274bd/32.png) [@newrubygirl](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/newrubygirl)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/user-specifiy-number-of-records-returned/132918/3 "2008-03-25T20:33:27Z")

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DUH! Figured it out…

\<%= link\_to “Show 50 records”, {:action =\> “report”, :records =\> 50 }  
%\>

@object\_records = object.find(:all, :limit =\> params[:records])