Link renderer and helper method to be used with will_paginate to render links to work with Twitter Bootstrap

application_helper.rb

module ApplicationHelper
  def paginate *params
    params[1] = {} if params[1].nil?
    params[1][:renderer] = BootstrapPaginationHelper::LinkRenderer
    will_paginate *params
  end
end

bootstrap_pagination_helper.rb

module BootstrapPaginationHelper
	class LinkRenderer < WillPaginate::ActionView::LinkRenderer
		protected
    
      def page_number(page)
        unless page == current_page
          link(page, page, :rel => rel_value(page))
        else
          link(page, "#", :class => 'active')
        end
      end
      
      def gap
        text = @template.will_paginate_translate(:page_gap) { '&hellip;' }
        %(<li class="disabled"><a>#{text}</a></li>)
      end
      
      def next_page
        num = @collection.current_page < @collection.total_pages && @collection.current_page + 1
        previous_or_next_page(num, @options[:next_label], 'next')
      end
      
      def previous_or_next_page(page, text, classname)
        if page
          link(text, page, :class => classname)
        else
          link(text, "#", :class => classname + ' disabled')
        end
      end
      
      def html_container(html)
        tag(:div, tag(:ul, html), container_attributes)
      end
    
    private
    
    	def link(text, target, attributes = {})
        if target.is_a? Fixnum
          attributes[:rel] = rel_value(target)
          target = url(target)
        end
        	
				unless target == "#"
					attributes[:href] = target
				end
				
        classname = attributes[:class]
        attributes.delete(:classname)
        tag(:li, tag(:a, text, attributes), :class => classname)
    	end
	end
end

some_view.html.haml

- news.each do |n|
  = n.author
  = n.date
  = n.abstract

= paginate news, :param_name => :news_page