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I am trying to paginate objects from a has_many/:through relationship using Paginator. current_user.things returns the objects that I''d like to paginate. For testing, I tried to make it 1 item per page. I initialise the paginator as follows: @thing_pages = Paginator.new(self, current_user.things.count, 1, @params[''page'']) I don''t know how to obtain @things now though, I don''t want to be using Things.find_all (as the wiki example shows) as I know which things I want to be paginating (current_user.things). How...

...- When we create a new element we call the ?new? action and then the ?create? action. In both of them we are using the ?Thing.new? so? are we instantiating the thing twice?. I don?t understand this piece of code. - For ?list? we use the pagination helper. The line of code is something like: ?@thing_pages, @things = paginate :things, :per_page => 10, :order_by => ''demo_name''? I don?t understand the line. I can understand the code after the ?@things =?, but not the ?@thing_pages,? code. - I?ve also seen in tutorials with older versions that variables such as ?flash? or ?p...