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Pagination 101

Article by Faruk Ateş, [originally on KuraFire.net][original] which is currently down

One of the most commonly overlooked and under-refined elements of a website is its pagination controls. In many cases, these are treated as an afterthought. I rarely come across a website that has decent pagination, and it always makes me wonder why so few manage to get it right. After all, I'd say that pagination is pretty easy to get right. Alas, that doesn't seem the case, so after encouragement from Chris Messina on Flickr I decided to write my Pagination 101, hopefully it'll give you some clues as to what makes good pagination.

Before going into analyzing good and bad pagination, I want to explain just what I consider to be pagination: Pagination is any kind of control system that lets the user browse through pages of search results, archives, or any other kind of continued content. Search results are the o

Why?

There is a long standing issue in Ruby where the net/http library by default does not check the validity of an SSL certificate during a TLS handshake. Rather than deal with the underlying problem (a missing certificate authority, a self-signed certificate, etc.) one tends to see bad hacks everywhere. This can lead to problems down the road.

From what I can see the OpenSSL library that Rails Installer delivers has no certificate authorities defined. So, let's go fetch some from the curl website. And since this is for ruby, why don't we download and install the file with a ruby script?

Installation

The Ruby Way! (Fun)

Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:

[remote "origin"]
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	url = [email protected]:joyent/node.git

Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this:

ruby-1.9.3-p385 cumulative performance patch for rbenv

This installs a patched ruby 1.9.3-p385 with various performance improvements and a backported COW-friendly GC, all courtesy of funny-falcon.

Requirements

You will also need a C Compiler. If you're on Linux, you probably already have one or know how to install one. On OS X, you should install XCode, and brew install autoconf using homebrew.

	# put this file in any autoloaded path on rails app. HINT: app/inputs/check_boxes_input.rb

	class CheckBoxesInput < Formtastic::Inputs::CheckBoxesInput

	def to_html
	unless options[:nested_set]
	super
	else
	nested_wrapping(options)
	end

	<!-- copy this to YOUR_THEME.tmTheme-->
	<dict>
	<key>name</key>
	<string>diff: deleted</string>
	<key>scope</key>
	<string>markup.deleted</string>
	<key>settings</key>
	<dict>
	<key>background</key>
	<string>#EAE3CA</string>

	---
	####
	#### THIS IS OLD AND OUTDATED
	#### LIKE, ANSIBLE 1.0 OLD.
	####
	#### PROBABLY HIT UP https://docs.ansible.com MY DUDES
	####
	#### IF IT BREAKS I'M JUST SOME GUY WITH
	#### A DOG, OK, SORRY
	####

	/*******************************************************************************
	* Copyright (c) 2012 Rüdiger Herrmann
	* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
	* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
	* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
	* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
	*
	* Contributors:
	* Rüdiger Herrmann - initial API and implementation
	* Frank Appel - code review, idea for assertEquals( T, Object, Object )

	package main

	import (
	"log"
	"net"
	"os"
	"os/signal"
	"sync"
	"syscall"
	"time"

	{ "keys": ["home"], "command": "move_to", "args": {"to": "bol"} },
	{ "keys": ["end"], "command": "move_to", "args": {"to": "eol"} }