Rails - Aug 2006 - Show and Back

Wondering if I can get some feedback as to the best approach to handling 
the following issue:

- you have 300 items and pagination is set to 10 items per page
- you are on page 10 and call the show action
- you then click back and it calls list on the controller
- the pagination starts again on page 1

Are people use hidden form fields, then passing the page number to the 
show, edit actions?

What''s the best way to handle this?

Thanks for any advice.

JD

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> Are people use hidden form fields, then passing the page number to the
> show, edit actions?
Why not save the page variable in a session?

Beate

Beate Paland wrote:
>> Are people use hidden form fields, then passing the page number to the
>> show, edit actions?
> 
> Why not save the page variable in a session?
> 
> Beate
Ended up taking this approach:

In list.rhtml, add a page_number parameter to the show action link:

<%= link_to ''Show'', :action => ''show'',
:id => media, :page_number
=>@media_pages.current %><br/>

In show action on the controller, grab that parameter into a variable so 
you can access it from show.rhtml view:

@page_number = params[:page_number]

In show.rhtml view, pass the list action on the controller the page 
number:

<%= link_to ''Back'', :action => ''list'',
:page => @page_number %><br />

Seems to work well. I wonder if there is an easier or more elegant way 
to do this?

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