Including first & last pages with pagy_nav?

[excid3]

The docs show pagy_nav rendering this which always includes a gap and the first / last pages to make it easier to jump back to the start or end. Plus it's a helpful reference for how large the results are.

However, I get this with pagy_nav with an ActiveRecord relation.

Is there a way to have pagy_nav render the first / last pages still?

[benkoshy]

Is there a way to have pagy_nav render the first / last pages still?

Yes.

If all you want is to render the first and last pages in addition to the others, all the time, you can do this by changing the size array:

pagy = Pagy.new count: 1000, page: 10, size: [1, 4, 4,1] # etc
pagy.series
#=>[1, :gap, 6, 7, 8, 9, "10", 11, 12, 13, 14, :gap, 50]

# so you may want to do something like in your FoosController.rb
@pagy, @foos = pagy(Foo.all, size: [1, 4, 4, 1])           

# or set a default in your pagy.rb initialiser if you want it globally set.
Pagy::DEFAULT[:size]    = [1, 4, 4,1]

Reference

https://ddnexus.github.io/pagy/docs/how-to/#control-the-page-links and checkout the session on "classic nav".

Try it out:

Run the interactive demo from your terminal:

bundle exec pagy demo

and point your browser to http://0.0.0.0:8000

(see pagy playground)

Targeting Classes

Looks like you're using bootstrap (?) but for anyone else, who wants to target the first / last link via css.

You can target the previous and next links by using pagy a:first-child and pagy a:last-child pseudo classes

Credit

@ddnexus who suggested the references.

[excid3]

Ah, that's what size does. 👍

[ddnexus]

@excid3 FYI, v8.6 implemented a faster default bar that is more symmetrical and stable in size and includes the first and last pages when needed. The default is size: 7 (i.e. 7 page/gaps slots) and looks like this:

If you want a wider bar, just increase the value. Odd numbers work better because the current page is placed in the center. E.g. size: 11:

HTH