Make will_paginate generate ajax links

application_helper.rb

module ApplicationHelper
  def paginate(collection, params= {})
    will_paginate collection, params.merge(:renderer => RemoteLinkPaginationHelper::LinkRenderer)
  end
end

Gemfile

source 'https://rubygems.org'

gem 'rails', '3.2.3'

# Gems used only for assets and not required
# in production environments by default.
group :assets do
  gem 'sass-rails',   '~> 3.2.3'
  gem 'coffee-rails', '~> 3.2.1'
  # See https://github.com/sstephenson/execjs#readme for more supported runtimes
  gem 'therubyracer', :platform => :ruby
  gem 'uglifier', '>= 1.0.3'
end

gem 'jquery-rails'

gem 'will_paginate', '~> 3.0'

index.html.erb

<div id="page_links">
    <%= paginate @results %>
</div>

remote_link_pagination_helper.rb

module RemoteLinkPaginationHelper
  class LinkRenderer < WillPaginate::ActionView::LinkRenderer
    def link(text, target, attributes = {})
      attributes['data-remote'] = true
      super
    end
  end
end

Works like charm 👍 Thanks a lot :)

The thing @tarmotalu posted won't work in vanilla will_paginate. It will only work if a custom renderer is used, my guess is that people for whom this works use will_paginate-bootstrap, which adds support for the link_options parameter.

thanks

Good job. Thanks

It seems does not work in rails5. Some changes should be done:
params.permit(:controller, :page, :id, :page).merge(:renderer => RemoteLinkPaginationHelper::LinkRenderer).deep_symbolize_keys
I have read the willpaginate souce code:

  renderer = case options[:renderer]
  when nil
    raise ArgumentError, ":renderer not specified"
  when String
    klass = if options[:renderer].respond_to? :constantize then options[:renderer].constantize
      else Object.const_get(options[:renderer]) # poor man's constantize
      end
    klass.new
  when Class then options[:renderer].new
  else options[:renderer]
  end

If you don't convert the key to symbol, it will raise an error ":renderer not specified"

One line in my js.erb file (e.g., index.js.erb) and will_paginate started working with ajax. Here it is:
$('.pagination a').attr('data-remote', 'true');

Thx steve981cr !!

Thanks to @tarmotalu

Thanks to @tarmotalu

Thanks a lot! It's really cool!!!

For those who want to use it with the bootstrap gem:

module RemoteLinkPaginationHelper
  class LinkRenderer < WillPaginate::ActionView::BootstrapLinkRenderer
    def link(text, target, attributes = {})
      attributes['data-remote'] = true
      super
    end
  end
end

One line in my js.erb file (e.g., index.js.erb) and will_paginate started working with ajax. Here it is: $('.pagination a').attr('data-remote', 'true');

Steve you're a rockstar!!