Class: WillPaginate::LinkRenderer

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/will_paginate/view_helpers.rb

Overview

This class does the heavy lifting of actually building the pagination links. It is used by the will_paginate helper internally.

Instance Attribute Summary collapse

Instance Method Summary collapse

Constructor Details

#initializeLinkRenderer

Returns a new instance of LinkRenderer.



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# File 'lib/will_paginate/view_helpers.rb', line 210

def initialize
  @gap_marker = '<span class="gap">&hellip;</span>'
end

Instance Attribute Details

#gap_markerObject

The gap in page links is represented by:




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# File 'lib/will_paginate/view_helpers.rb', line 208

def gap_marker
  @gap_marker
end

Instance Method Details

#html_attributesObject

Returns the subset of options this instance was initialized with that represent HTML attributes for the container element of pagination links.



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# File 'lib/will_paginate/view_helpers.rb', line 242

def html_attributes
  return @html_attributes if @html_attributes
  @html_attributes = @options.except *(WillPaginate::ViewHelpers.pagination_options.keys - [:class])
  # pagination of Post models will have the ID of "posts_pagination"
  if @options[:container] and @options[:id] === true
    @html_attributes[:id] = @collection.first.class.name.underscore.pluralize + '_pagination'
  end
  @html_attributes
end

#prepare(collection, options, template) ⇒ Object

  • collection is a WillPaginate::Collection instance or any other object that conforms to that API

  • options are forwarded from will_paginate view helper

  • template is the reference to the template being rendered



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# File 'lib/will_paginate/view_helpers.rb', line 218

def prepare(collection, options, template)
  @collection = collection
  @options    = options
  @template   = template

  # reset values in case we're re-using this instance
  @total_pages = @param_name = @url_string = nil
end

#to_htmlObject

Process it! This method returns the complete HTML string which contains pagination links. Feel free to subclass LinkRenderer and change this method as you see fit.



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# File 'lib/will_paginate/view_helpers.rb', line 230

def to_html
  links = @options[:page_links] ? windowed_links : []
  # previous/next buttons
  links.unshift page_link_or_span(@collection.previous_page, 'disabled prev_page', @options[:previous_label])
  links.push    page_link_or_span(@collection.next_page,     'disabled next_page', @options[:next_label])
  
  html = links.join(@options[:separator])
  @options[:container] ? @template.(:div, html, html_attributes) : html
end