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mongodb, mongoid, will_paginate and sorting

06 Apr 2010

Had a bit of an issue with will_paginate and mongoid. I couldn’t find an example of how to sort the pagination query and paginating without a defined sort order defeats the purpose.

paginate(:page => page, :per_page => size, :sort => [['ontology_term_id', :desc], ['_id', :asc]])

Instead of using “order” or “order_by” you can just use “sort” with an array of arrays.