How do I create will_paginate links to other pages?

Question

I am trying to do pagination for products. I have:

   # Routes
    match 'dashboard' => 'dashboard#index'

   # Dashboard Controller
   def index 
    @products = Product.order("id").page(params[:page]).per_page(4)
   end

   # Dashboard Index View
   h1 products
   .products
   = render @products
   = will_paginate(@products)

The pagination links are showing up in the dashboard index view.

Example

     <-- previous 1 2 3 next -->

But the links don't append the proper path. The default view is localhost:3000/dashboard.
The pagination links have:

     http://localhost:3000/?page=2

For testing, if I just enter the proper path with the page params in the url bar

     http://localhost:3000/dashboard?page=2

it works fine and paginates, displaying the next set of products. My goal is to have the links have dashboard in the link. I am guessing this will happen with some combination of passing options in the "will_paginate" method in the view.

I want this to happen when the user is at their root page:

  http://localhost:3000/dashboard

Answer 1

To override the will_paginate url:

will_paginate(@products, :params => { :controller => "dashboard", :action => "index" })

Or if you have named route for dashboard:

will_paginate(@products, :params => { :controller => dashboard_path })

will paginate documentation