Pagy

Pagy is the ultimate pagination gem that outperforms the others in each and every benchmark and comparison.

New in 3.0+

Pagy 3.0+ is considerably faster, lighter and more efficient than 2.0+ on modern environments (see the charts below)
The javascript nav helpers have been refactored for improved performance and more intuitive API
The i18n has been refactored, the dictionary files are simpler and 100% compliant with the i18n gem
Added a few new extras
Added Maximizing Performance docs as a practical guide to choose the best options for your requirements and environment

Notice: Updating from 2.0+ to 3.0+ requires just some search and replace and a little reorganization of your custom i18n dictionaries. Check the CHANGELOG for details.

Suggestions:

If you are using any pagy*_nav helper, consider to switch to pagy*_nav_js, which gives you the same output with a substancial performance boost.
If you are using any javascript frontend, take a look at the metadata extra
For API pagination take a look at the headers extra

Comparison with other gems

The best way to quickly get an idea about Pagy is comparing it to the other well known gems.

The values shown in the charts below have been recorded while each gem was producing the exact same output in the exact same environment. (see the Detailed Gems Comparison)

~ 40x Faster!

~ 36x Lighter!

~ 35x Simpler!

~ 1,410x More Efficient!

Each dot in the visualization above represents the resources that Pagy consumes for one full rendering. The other gems consume hundreds of times as much for the same rendering.

The IPS/Kb ratio is calculated out of speed (IPS) and Memory (Kb): it shows how well each gem uses each Kb of memory it allocates/consumes.

Features

Straightforward Code

Pagy has a very slim core code of just ~100 lines of simple ruby, organized in 3 flat modules, very easy to understand and use (see more...)
It has a quite fat set of optional extras that you can explicitly require for very efficient and modular customization (see extras)
It has no dependencies: it produces its own HTML, URLs, i18n with its own specialized and fast code (see why...)
100% of its methods are public API, accessible and overridable right where you use them (no pesky monkey-patching needed)
100% test coverage for core code and extras

Totally Agnostic

The Pagy class doesn't need to know anything about your models, ORM or storage, so it doesn't add any code to them (see why...)
It works with all kinds of collections, even pre-paginated, records, Arrays, JSON data... and just any list, even if you cannot count it (see how...)
Pagy works with the most popular Rack frameworks (Rails, Sinatra, Padrino, ecc.) out of the box (see more...)
It works also with any possible non-Rack environment by just overriding one or two two-lines methods (see more...)

Unlike the other gems

Pagy is very modular and does not load any unnecessary code in your app (see why...)
It works even with collections/scopes that already used limit and offset (see how...)
It works with fast helpers OR easy to edit templates (see more...)
It raises real Pagy::OverflowError exceptions that you can rescue from (see how...) or use the overflow extra for a few ready to use common behaviors
It does not impose any difficult-to-override logic or output (see why...)
It also works on legacy systems starting from ruby 1.9+ and jruby 1.7+

Easy to use

After installing and including Pagy (see Quick Start), you can use it in a quite familiar way:

Paginate your collection in some controller:

@pagy, @records = pagy(Product.some_scope)

Render the navigation links with a super-fast helper in some view:

<%== pagy_nav(@pagy) %>

Or - if you prefer - render the navigation links with a template:

<%== render partial: 'pagy/nav', locals: {pagy: @pagy} %>

Easy to customize

Use the official extras, or write your own in just a few lines. Extras add special options and manage different components, behaviors, Frontend or Backend environments... usually by just requiring them:

Backend Extras

arel: Better performance of grouped ActiveRecord collections
array: Paginate arrays efficiently, avoiding expensive array-wrapping and without overriding
countless: Paginate without the need of any count, saving one query per rendering
elasticsearch_rails: Paginate ElasticsearchRails response objects
headers: Add RFC-8288 compliant http response headers (and other helpers) useful for API pagination
metadata: Provides the pagination metadata to Javascript frameworks like Vue.js, react.js, etc.
searchkick: Paginate Searchkick::Results objects

Frontend Extras

bootstrap: Add nav, nav_js and combo_nav_js helpers for the Bootstrap pagination component
bulma: Add nav, nav_js and combo_nav_js helpers for the Bulma CSS pagination component
foundation: Add nav, nav_js and combo_nav_js helpers for the Foundation pagination component
materialize: Add nav, nav_js and combo_nav_js helpers for the Materialize CSS pagination component
navs: Add nav_js and combo_nav_js unstyled helpers
semantic: Add nav, nav_js and combo_nav_js helpers for the Semantic UI CSS pagination component
tailwind: Extra styles for Tailwind CSS
uikit: Add nav, nav_js and combo_nav_js helpers for the UIkit pagination component

Feature Extras

i18n: Use the I18n gem instead of the pagy-i18n implementation
items: Allow the client to request a custom number of items per page with an optional selector UI
overflow: Allow for easy handling of overflowing pages
support: Extra support for features like: incremental, auto-incremental and infinite pagination
trim: Remove the page=1 param from the first page link

Alternative Components

Besides the classic pagination offered by the pagy_nav helpers, you can use a couple of more performant alternatives:

pagy_nav_js: A faster and lighter classic looking UI, rendered on the client side with optional responsiveness:
pagy_combo_nav_js: The fastest and lightest alternative UI (48x faster, 48x lighter and 2,270x more efficient than Kaminari) that combines navigation and pagination info in a single compact element:

Related Projects

pagy-cursor An early stage proget that implements cursor pagination for AR

Resources

GoRails Screencast

Notice: the pagy_nav_bootstrap helper used in the screencast has been renamed as pagy_bootstrap_nav since version 2.0

Raul Palacio Screencast (Spanish)

Posts and Tutorials

Migrating from WillPaginate and Kaminari (practical guide)
Detailed Gems Comparison (charts and analysis)
Benchmarks and Memory Profiles Source (Rails app repository)
Faster Pagination with Pagy introductory tutorial by Sirajus Salekin
Pagy with Templates Minipost by aloucas
Pagination with Pagy by Tiago Franco
Quick guide for Pagy with Sinatra and Sequel by Victor Afanasev
Integrating Pagy with Hanami by Paweł Świątkowski
Stateful Tabs with Pagy by Chris Seelus
Handling Pagination When POSTing Complex Search Forms by Ben Koshy.
How to Override pagy methods only in specific circumstances by Ben Koshy.
How to make your pagination links sticky + bounce at the bottom of your page by Ben Koshy.
日本語の投稿
한국어 튜토리얼

Docs

Support and Feedback

Chat on Gitter

Repository Info

Versioning

Pagy follows the Semantic Versioning 2.0.0. Please, check the Changelog for breaking changes introduced by mayor versions.

Contributions

Pull Requests are welcome!

Before spending time creating a (potentially complex) Pull Request, you can Confirm on Gitter whether your proposed changes are going to be useful for most users.

If you Create A Pull Request, please ensure that the "All checks have passed" indicator gets green light on the Pull Request page. That means that the tests passed and Codecov and Rubocop are happy.

Branches

The master branch is the latest rubygem-published release. It also contains docs and comment changes that don't affect the published code.

The dev branch is the development branch with the new code that will be merged in the next release.

Expect any other branch to be experimental, force-rebased and/or deleted even without merging.

Credits

Many thanks to:

GoRails for the great Pagy Screencast and their top notch Rails Episodes
Imaginary Cloud for continually publishing high-interest articles and helping to share Pagy when it just started
JetBrains for their free OpenSource license
The Contributors for all the smart code and suggestions merged in the project
The Stargazers for showing their support

Caveats

Jruby 9.2+ random exceptions in tests

One of the latest jruby version (9.2.+) raises a couple of random Java::JavaLang::NullPointerException while running the frontend tests in Travis. That doesn't happen with previous versions.

It might be just another jruby bug or a number of possible things related to the tests or the Travis build that might or might not affect real usage. I am done with debugging jruby weirdness, so I am not going to investigate it further. If you get any info about it, please, create an issue.

License

This project is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.