How to Implement ajax pagination with will_paginate gem

Question

I am using will_paginate gem in my ROR project to show the records in pages.

I want the next page to be loaded without reloading the whole

Answer 1

To follow on from @Pierre's excellent answer re creating a helper, I've seen some follow up questions regarding updating the views (a problem I initially had). @Pierre follows up with that problem by stating that you need to create a js response. Here's what I did after creating the helper:

in my show.html.erb

    <%= render @comments %>


    <%= js_will_paginate @comments %>

I created another file called show.js.erb (so two formats for show)

// to update comments    
$("#see-comments").html("<%= j render @comments %>");
// to update the pagination links
$("#pagination-comments").html('<%= js_will_paginate @comments %>');