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I like to localize the "previous" and "next" links in will_paginate, how can I do that? Did anyone find a nice workaround?

Jeff Swensen
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will_paginate accepts a Hash of options, including options to customize the previous/next labels.

<%= will_paginate @collection, :previous_label => t("previous"), :next_label => t("next") %>
Simone Carletti
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In case someone else found the thread..., there is an another solution now.

https://github.com/mislav/will_paginate/wiki/I18n

The following is extracted from the above link.

As of will_paginate v2.3.16 and v3.0, some output of will_paginate view helper and the complete output of page_entries_info helper can be translated by means of the i18n library.

In Rails, this usually means adding your translations in YAML or ruby format in the "config/locale/" directory.

Translation keys and default values for the will_paginate helper can be seen here:


en:
  will_paginate:
    previous_label: "Previous"
    next_label: "Next"
    page_gap: "…"
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  • I'm curious as to why this was downvoted; it seems like an excellent solution to me. (I'm not in a position to test it right now though so I can't say for sure.) – Ajedi32 Feb 21 '14 at 14:19
  • A nice solution, explained in the gem wiki on github, but seems like something's wrong with it for me. Tried to add a translation in another locale, but it still shows the same output. – Almaron May 26 '14 at 14:43
  • Upgrading from will_paginate 3.0.3 to 3.1.0 seems to have caused it to stop reading the translations in the app. The will_paginate locale file is now the last item in `config.i18n.load_paths` so it overrides the locale in the file. – jwadsack Jan 18 '16 at 23:37