will_paginate w/ extra params

Hi,

I'm not real sure how I should set this code up to continue on a restful design. A few related questions. First of all, I want pass more parameters into will_paginate. No matter how I try it does not seem to work. My index action looks like this.

def index     @posts = Post.paginate :per_page => 3,                              :page => params[:page],                              :order => 'created_at DESC' end

First I tried setting @page above @posts with some extra params. I then tried adding more into the options like params[:page], params[:year], params[:month], params[:day]. I also tried a few more ideas I had but they all failed.

I have not been able to pass any extra params into that query so I gave up on that, and added another action to the posts controller called archive. Before someone asks I did it with Post.find_by_date.paginate. Maybe that is the problem to start with I'm not sure.

def archive     @posts = Post.find_by_date(params[:year], params[:month], params[:day]) end

This way I now have http://localhost:3000/2007/11/01 for my archive urls.

I definitely want to know how I can pass more parameters into will_paginate, but I also have a design question. Should I move archives into it's own controller? Considering I would like to have a few specialized views for it, plus it breaks the 7 actions limit for a restful design. I'm unsure about this since they both query the post table. I also break this design by adding a feed action for my RSS. I see people break the rules here and there, but I'm unsure when it's OK and when it's not. I have routes setup for all these in config/routes.rb. Thanks for clearing this up for me.

--gregf

As far will_paginate is concerned check this

I will leave the other question for someone else to answer ;o)