# mislav/will_paginate

Pagination library for Rails and other Ruby applications

Repository: https://github.com/mislav/will_paginate
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/will_paginate
Homepage: http://github.com/mislav/will_paginate/wikis
Language: Ruby
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: rails, plugin, pagination-library, sinatra, sequel, pagination, ruby
Last push: 2025-11-24T13:36:25+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 47/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 53, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6764, "days_push": 282, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5684, forks 857 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:27.888775+00:00)

## What it is
will_paginate is a Ruby pagination library providing paginated database queries and view helpers for Rails, Sinatra, Hanami::View, and Sequel. It is now in maintenance mode, receiving no new features.

## Use cases
- paginate ActiveRecord queries in Rails
- render pagination links in views
- add pagination to a Sinatra app
- paginate Sequel datasets
- split large result sets into pages

## When to choose
- you maintain a legacy Rails or Sinatra app already using will_paginate
- you want a simple, battle-tested pagination helper for Ruby web apps

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new project and want actively developed pagination
- you need features beyond basic query pagination and link rendering

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: orm, database, web-framework, ui-components
- domain: web-development, databases, backend
- platform: ruby
- tags: pagination, active-record, sinatra, sequel, view-helpers, rails

## Member repositories
- mislav/will_paginate (main) score 47

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:27.888775+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:54:14.553786+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mislav/will_paginate (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:27.888775+00:00, sha 96121931b95e)
  - homepage: http://github.com/mislav/will_paginate/wikis (fetched 2026-08-29T08:49:13.889181+00:00, sha b5ad20a3fd55)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.