Middleman Paginator

A simple plugin that allows paginating any collection of objects

Instalation

Add this to your Gemfile

gem 'middleman-paginator'

Use

Activate gem in config.rb

  activate :paginator do |e|
    e.per_page = 25 # Default 20
  end

Paginate

destination - Path to put pages in. Expects / in the end. Produced pages will have following path #{destination}pages/index.html, #{destination}pages/2.html

template - Path to the template. If you don't want to render template by itself pass ignore: true to extra arguments.

objects - Objects to paginate. You will have access to them inside the template as objects.

locals - If you have need any other variables inside the template, pass them allong as you normally would.

ignore - See template option description.

paginate(
  destination: '/',
  template: 'template.html',
  objects: objects,
  locals: { },
  ignore: true
)

Access from template

Inside template, iterate over per_page number of objects

  - paginator[:objects].each do |object|
    // render object 

  = previous_page_link
  = next_page_link

As you might've noticed paginator injects local variable called paginator. With following helpful data: objects, page, destination, last_page

Helpers

Paginator provides a few helper methods:

• last_page_link
• previous_page_link
• next_page_link
• last_page_link
• pages They work like link_to helper and support same the arguments.

Here is an example with bootstrap styles:

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