Newbie: Paginating arrays(collection of image filenames) and showing progress of zipping

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Hi All,

This post is related to Rails, I have 2 questions:

1.I have an array of fileNames of images in the controller and I want to paginate the images, say 20 images per page. I got the images from Dir.glob.

2.I need to zip a large number of file, thus, to show the user the progress of zipping, I created a link:

<%= link_to_remote("download selected",
   :update => nil,
   :loading => "Element.show('progress')",
   :complete => "Element.hide('progress')",
   :url => { :action => :download }) %>
</td>

in the controller for download,
I do the zipping part and after the zip is done, I do a send_file
but, I do not get the "downlaod as" dialog box in the browser.

Howvevr, if i use link_to, I do get the download. But, I wanted to show the progress of zipping as it could involve large number of file.

Regards
Gnan

2

This could probably be more readable/efficient:

   module Enumerable
     def paginate(size)
       i = 0
       self.inject() { |arr,item|
         (arr[i/size] ||= ) << item
         i += 1
         arr
       }
     end
   end

   [1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9].paginate(4) #=> [[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8],[9]]

-Levin

···

Gnanavel <gnanavel.s@gmail.com> wrote:

1.I have an array of fileNames of images in the controller and I want to paginate the images, say 20 images per page. I got the images from Dir.glob.

3

enumerator module in std. lib has #each_slice (and #each_cons) methods
to do this "pagination" (take x items at a time from array Y) for you

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/enumerator/rdoc/

4

Hi,

thanks for the response, can this be combined with Ajax pagination helper?

regards
Gnan

"Levin Alexander" <levin@grundeis.net> wrote in message
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1.I have an array of fileNames of images in the controller and I want to
paginate the images, say 20 images per page. I got the images from
Dir.glob.

This could probably be more readable/efficient:

   module Enumerable
     def paginate(size)
       i = 0
       self.inject() { |arr,item|
         (arr[i/size] ||= ) << item
         i += 1
         arr
       }
     end
   end

   [1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9].paginate(4) #=> [[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8],[9]]

-Levin

···

Gnanavel <gnanavel.s@gmail.com> wrote: