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Hello, AV::paginate query first by a count, how access this value in the controller or view ? Why ? Because I''ll like to display the total number or records found w/o doing another expenssive Count. Thanks,

...i which might help you: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoPagination To Adam, one tip about your solution. Once you have a Paginator object that the view can see, you can use its methods to get the number of items while in the view instead of having to set the variables @total, @first_msg, @last_msg in the controller. (Everyone has their own style but I like to keep my controller as streamlined as I can.) Just use something like this in your view: Listing <%= @message_pages.current.first_item %> - <%= @message_pages.current.last_item %> of <%= pluralize(@ messa...

Hi, after trying sshfs to mount a remote file system on a server with the result that sshfs will sooner or later get stuck and require a reboot of the client, I'm fed up with it and am looking for alternatives. So next I would like to use NFS over a VPN connection instead. To minimize the instances of the NFS mount getting stuck, it might be helpful to use autofs. What happens when the