undefined method `paginate'

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I am working with Railsspace social networking book. I stuck in the problem when i am doing paginate for the search result. It gives the following error.

NoMethodError in CommunityController#index

undefined method `paginate' for #<CommunityController:0x57436f0>

My Controller Index page coding is below

def index @title = "Community" @letters = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ".split("") if params[:id] @initial = params[:id] @pages, specs = paginate(:specs, :conditions => ["last_name LIKE ?", @initial+"%"], :order => "last_name, first_name") @users = specs.collect { |spec| spec.user } end end

Please help me out.

Any help is appreciable.

Thanks Amir

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You dont have a "def paginate " method defined in your controller.

Anyway you’ll probably want to use a pagination gem such as Kaminari, which includes all you need for that purpose.

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You dont have a "def paginate " method defined in your controller. Anyway you'll probably want to use a pagination gem such as Kaminari, which includes all you need for that purpose.

Hi Juan,

Thanks for the help message. Juan I am newbie on ROR could you please help me how to install kaminari.

Is it right command to run "gem install kaminari" as I am working on windows.

Thanks in advance Amir

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It’s right, but your best approach is to add ‘gem kaminari’ to your Gemfile and to use rvm.

I don’t have much experience on rails + windows issues, but I know they can be a real pain, so I’d also suggest that you use linux instead for rails development, in a virtual machine if for some reason you can’t install linux in your computer.

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