Hey,
The first option to paginate expects the Symbol object which is the name of your table, not an ActiveRecord or a list of ActiveRecord objects.
Cheers, Yuri
One of the options is having the following method in your ApplicationController
def paginate_collection(collection, options = {}) default_options = {:per_page => 10, :page => params[:page]} options = default_options.merge(options)
pages = Paginator.new(self, collection.size, options[:per_page], options[:page]) first = pages.current.offset last = [first + options[:per_page], collection.size].min slice = collection[first...last] return [pages, slice] end
This method receives the collection as you see, and returns exactly
what paginate returns. The disadvantage of this solution is that you
have to read the _whole_ list of objects into memory. Though, well,
your initial variant does the same 
Cheers.
Hi Keith. I know we emailed on this already, but I thought I'd post this for others. In your situation, paginating_find works like this:
@friends = current_user.profile.friends.find(:all, :page => { :size => 10, :current => params[:page] })
... which, of course, gets you 10 friends associated with the current user (through the profile). Which 10 friends depends on the value of params[:page]. So, no more loading *all* the friends if you only want to show 10 of them at a time...