I am not so anti pagination and often find it mildly useful. But mostly my clients want it regardless. So I have abtracted my pagination solution for m_r into a plugin called funnily enough make_resourceful_with_pagination. Now it may sound like a fork of m_r but it is in fact an “evil-twin” plugin, which is a plugin pattern invented by Chris Wanstrath of GitHub. So basically you need to install both m_r and my plugin.

It works with will_paginate by default but should also work with paginating_find or any pagination that acts on the model. You just need to tweak the global options. It won’t work with classic pagination, but frankly I don’t see the appeal of that anyway.