How best to DRY will_paginate options

Question

I have 8 controllers using will_paginate to paginate their index pages. I\'d like to override the defaults for \"Previous\" and \"Next\" on each without having to specify the s

Answer 1

will_paginate uses I18n so you can just use that. Given you use English as the default locale the following line should be present in application.rb:

config.i18n.default_locale = :en

you can then change the text of the pagination links by adding the following to config/locales/will_paginate.en.yml:

en:
  will_paginate:
    previous_label: "← go back"
    next_label: "go forward →"

Alternatively you can add them to your default translations file: config/locales/en.yml but I have found that it quickly becomes to large to handle.

Note: If you use another locale, for instance es, for this to work you need to at least replace the en: keys within the YAML files to es: and to be concise about naming your files, use either config/locales/will_paginate.es.yml or config/locales/es.yml.