Using will_paginate with multiple models (Rails)

Question

Pretty sure that I\'m missing something really simple here:

I\'m trying to display a series of pages that contain instances of two different models - Profiles and Gr

Answer 1

in my last project i stuck into a problem, i had to paginate multiple models with single pagination in my search functionality. it should work in a way that the first model should appear first when the results of the first model a second model should continue the results and the third and so on as one single search feed, just like facebook feeds. this is the function i created to do this functionality

def multi_paginate(models, page, per_page)

  WillPaginate::Collection.create(page, per_page) do |pager|

    # set total entries
    pager.total_entries = 0
    counts = [0]
    offsets = []
    for model in models
          pager.total_entries += model.count
          counts << model.count
          offset = pager.offset-(offsets[-1] || 0)
          offset = offset>model.count ? model.count : offset 
          offsets << (offset<0 ? 0 : offset)
    end

    result = []
    for i in 0...models.count
          result += models[i].limit(pager.per_page-result.length).offset(offsets[i]).to_a
    end

    pager.replace(result)
  end

end

try it and let me know if you have any problem with it, i also posted it as an issue to will_paginate repository, if everyone confirmed that it works correctly i'll fork and commit it to the library. https://github.com/mislav/will_paginate/issues/351