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Example of the reverse pagination
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Example of the reverse pagination

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/djo/reverse_will_paginate
• Owner: djo
• License: mit
• Created: 2011-12-26T11:24:28.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-06-19T09:48:16.000Z (about 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-08-24T15:54:13.398Z (10 months ago)
• Language: Ruby
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• Size: 168 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 0
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Example of the reverse pagination

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With the standard pagination strategy on adding a new content you will have situation when the older content moves from page #1 to page #2 and so on. It leads to issues with SEO, indexing and UX. This example shows you how to implement reverse pagination with [will_paginate](https://github.com/mislav/will_paginate) and floating limit for the first (index) page to avoid such issues.

## How it looks

For example you need to display 3 posts per page. In this case you will have from 3 to 5 posts on the start page:

9 posts will produce 3 pages with 3 posts on the index:

    9..7 posts on the /posts

    6..4 posts on the /posts/page-2

    3..1 posts on the /posts/page-1

10 posts will produce 3 pages with 4 posts on the index:

    10..7 posts on the /posts

    6..4  posts on the /posts/page-2

    3..1  posts on the /posts/page-1

11 posts will produce 3 pages with 5 posts on the index:

    11..7 posts on the /posts

    6..4  posts on the /posts/page-2

    3..1  posts on the /posts/page-1

And posts will produce 4 pages with 3 posts on the index:

    12..10 posts on the /posts

    9..7   posts on the /posts/page-3

    6..4   posts on the /posts/page-2

    3..1   posts on the /posts/page-1

## How it works

To get this behaviour you need to implement the floating limit for the first page.

I didn't find better solution with will_paginate than to convert a given relation to collection to set the right limit for the start page.
See [specs](https://github.com/Djo/reverse_will_paginate/tree/master/spec/controllers/cities_controller_spec.rb).

Also look at [https://github.com/Djo/reverse_kaminari](https://github.com/Djo/reverse_kaminari).