Rails - Oct 2005 - Pagination on non-ActiveRecord objects

I was looking for a way to apply the Paginator and pagination helpers
to something that is not tied to a model derived from ActiveRecord. I
knew I''d have to create the Paginator object from its constructor. But
then I struggled with how to get the view to display the correct page
of objects.

Being a Ruby Nuby and an even newer Rails convert,  I came up with
this method, which while it works, may not be the ideal solution. I am
using the Odeum full text search engine to collect my search results.

in action, assume I have an array @results of Document:

@result_pages = Paginator.new self, @results.length, 10,
@params[''page'']
@results = @results[(@result_pages.current.first_item -1) ..
(@result_pages.current.last_item -1)]

// then the view handles @results and pagination_links as usual/
Should I have done something else?

Any help would be appreciated.
Ed