Rails - Apr 2007 - Remote pagination using pagination_links, link_to_remote and url_for

I have two controllers, ''ads'' and ''markets''.
In the ads controller I have a
page that shows some partials from the markets view.  I could create
partials within the ''ads'' view and methods in the
''ads'' controller but that
seems like i would be out of bounds.   Since the markets partials were
identical to some pieces i had already created and I might want to use this
partial elsewhere in the future, I thought it would be best to keep markets
with markets.

So now I show a view within ads and I have a partial rendered using
pagination.  I want to be able to move from page to page within the list
(and filter it) and ultimately choose a record/row from the list and use it
within the current view.   However, somewhere along the string of method
calls to build the pagination links some method filters out my :controller
and :action assignments and replaces them with the current values.  So what
should be /markets/min_filter_lookup/?page=2 ends up being
/ads/assign_markets/?page=2 (the current view).  The result of course is an
entire new page/layout being rendered and returned, where I only want the
partial.

Below is the method I use to generate the remote pagination links.  It
started as a method in my application helper that I only used within one
view/controller, but I recently added some additional params/cases to use it
to handle my current situation.  If you look at the code below you can see I
have one line commented out.  I replaced that url_for call with the actual
url, somewhat hard-coded, and it works.  Maybe I don''t understand
url_for.
Maybe it''s a combination of a few methods?  (Either way I have a
feeling
that the answer is extremely simple)

  def pagination_links_remote(paginator, controller = nil, prefix =
'''')
    page_options = {:window_size => 4}
    target = prefix.nil? ? ''filter_by_list'' :
"#{prefix}_filter_by_list"
    action = prefix.nil? ? ''filter_lookup'' :
"#{prefix}_filter_lookup"

    plinks = pagination_links_each(paginator, page_options) do |n|

      if controller.nil?
        options = {
          :url => {:action => action, :params => @params.merge({:page
=>
n})},
          :update => target,
          :before =>
"Element.show(''filter_by_activity_indicator'')",
          :success =>
"Element.hide(''filter_by_activity_indicator'')"
        }
        html_options = {:href => url_for(:action => action, :params =>
@
params.merge({:page => n}))}
      else
        options = {
#          :url => url_for(:controller => controller, :action =>
action,
:params => @params.merge({:page => n})),
          :url => "/markets/min_filter_lookup/?page=#{n}",
          :update => target,
          :before =>
"Element.show(''filter_by_activity_indicator'')",
          :success =>
"Element.hide(''filter_by_activity_indicator'')"
        }
        html_options = {:href => url_for(:controller => controller,
:action
=> action, :params => @params.merge({:page => n}))}
     end

      logger.debug "pagination_links html_options:
#{html_options.inspect}"
      logger.debug "pagination_links controller:
#{controller.inspect}"
      logger.debug "pagination_links prefix: #{prefix.inspect}"

      link_to_remote(n.to_s, options, html_options)
    end

    if plinks
      "Page: #{plinks}"
    else
      ''''
    end
  end


Thanks,

John

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