--- title: Pagination with pagy - clearbnb - Part 17 slug: pagination-with-pagy-clearbnb-part-17 published_at: 2022-03-18 10:00:00 +0000 updated_at: 2026-03-04 20:13:37 +0000 summary: description: In this short episode, we'll install the pagy gem and use it to paginate the list of listings. #rails #rubyonrails tags: [cjav_dev, web development tutorials, web development for beginners, vim, ruby, rails, pagination, pagy, @cjav_dev] views: 910 author: CJ Avilla url: https://www.cjav.dev/videos/pagination-with-pagy-clearbnb-part-17 youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RtYhDIKmBY youtube_id: 0RtYhDIKmBY embed_url: https://www.youtube.com/embed/0RtYhDIKmBY thumbnail_url: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0RtYhDIKmBY/hqdefault.jpg type: video --- # Pagination with pagy - clearbnb - Part 17 *Published: March 18, 2022* *Views: 910* ## Watch [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RtYhDIKmBY) [![Pagination with pagy - clearbnb - Part 17](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0RtYhDIKmBY/hqdefault.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RtYhDIKmBY) ## Description In this short episode, we'll install the pagy gem and use it to paginate the list of listings. #rails #rubyonrails ## Transcript hey welcome back in this episode you'll see how to use the pagey gem to add pagination to a simple list the pageygem is a popular pagination tool for rails and other ruby frameworks and in the past episode i think we used uh will paginate or kaminari we kind of like looked at the two so if you're interested in using either of those gems head over and take a look at that episode in this channel otherwise today we're going to dive in and use pagey to paginate this list of listings so the first thing we need to do is add the gem so i'm going to drop down into this sort of it's easy to use and customize so the first step is to just yeah i guess just add the pagey gem so we're going to say bundle add pg and then we need to include it in the controllers where we actually want to use pagination so i'm going to open up the listings controller here and add that as a new sort of module we're including we also want to include it in the helpers where this is relevant so the listings helper and we'll just drop it in there if you're using pagination a lot in your application you can just put these in your application controller because we're only doing it on the listings page um i think it makes sense to just keep it in the listings controller uh so we're gonna say pagey is listings and then here what we do is we we pass the collection into this pagey function and that should paginate for us and what's interesting here is we get back a tuple of a pagey object this has like all the pagination stuff like what's the next page what's the count of the page how many are we on et cetera et cetera and then listings is the you know the list of listings and then finally we want to add the navigation items to the view so we'll go to the listings index and we'll add it before our list and after our list just for fun and if we refresh the page we have not started the server so we need to do that and when the page or when the server reloads now we can see our our our list is the same and we only have one page so we have our previous index buttons but they don't do anything because we only have one page of listings we could add some more listings or what we could do is just limit the number of items here by passing in some fixed number so if we say six then we only see six items and we can go to the next page now now you can see there's like two pages um i actually don't mind the styling here of these elements also as you know i'm not like a huge styling person so uh i think we'll keep the style of the navigation that like that for now but there are sort of tools for styling it with tailwind and you can apply different classes and such okay so that's really pagey in a nutshell the next section here what i want to do is make this look a little bit nicer so i'm actually going to like use some tailwind ui uh in this grid view because ultimately we want our list of listings at least in this sort of like discovery view to have the images or like sort of like a you know banner or hero image for each listing and then the name of the listing below it so we'll just grab the code for this from tailwind ui again this is sort of like a um yeah a cheat code to not have to learn too much of this stuff they have a lot of the components that you would expect sort of all ready to go so i am going to just drop that in and then let's take a look at what we get so now we're able to paginate but nothing is actually changing page to page so if we if we take a look at what's actually in these these line items we have a div that wraps up that image and inside the div we have a button and that's for the screen reader to view details for something and what we can do is actually just print out the like listing.title here so that it prints out that title of the listing for screen readers and then we also want to print that out here listing.title so that we get a nice little view down below cabin in the woods and for fun we'll also print out the listings nightly price and again this is in sort of just sense integer sense and now we have sort of something going on where we can see those now ideally what we want to do is when we click on the image it should bring us to the listing detail view right now this is a div which is not clickable so i'm going to make that a an a tag so that we can make this a link and we're going to go to the listing path for the listing and that should work just fine so now when we click on this image it brings us to the listing show page the one other thing i thought might make sense is just getting us a little bit of breathing room underneath the navigation item and maybe on top of this one because they're pretty close so i'm going to wrap these in a div with class like margin bottom four and then i'll do the same on the bot on the the bottom navigation but instead of adding the margin on the bottom we're going to add the margin on the top and if we refresh now we have a little bit more breathing room and i think that looks pretty nice four across isn't my favorite but we're going to ultimately we're going to chop this page sort of into two columns and then we'll have a map on the right and our grid of listings on the left but for now this is kind of where we'll leave it and that's the the pagey gem it's pretty straightforward there's a bunch of other stuff you can do but for our purposes that's really all that we need all right thanks so much for watching and we'll see in the next one [Music] --- [Back to all videos](https://www.cjav.dev/videos) --- ## Hey Agent, thanks for visiting! 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