Is there a rails plugin that will do alphabetical pagination/navigation?
I have a very large data set and would prefer something that gave users a more direct navigation cue in addition to 1..2...3...4...5 pagination.
I could code it myself but was wondering if there was a decent plugin out there already that would do it for me.
Why can you not have the alphabet for which you want to see the results to, passed as a parameter? And then paginate on the results? That is,
# show results of params[:alphabet] alphabet
@results = fetch_results(params[:alphabet])
# Use Will Paginate to fetch results internally and give a condition that
# fetches results starting with the passed alphabet.
And show paginated results (numbered) using <%= will_paginate @results %> on the view.