Rails 5 : NoMethod Error - Undefined Method Paginate - ruby-on-rails

Question

I have a JSON API based on Rails 5. I have a method that brings list of all the products for one particular company, which I want to paginate so that not to bring up all the data at once. For this I came across two gems, namely will_paginate and api-pagination.
After running bundle install and restarting the server, I'm still getting the following error :
NoMethodError (undefined method `paginate' for #<Api::V1::ProductsController:0x007fb25404db30>)
The Products Controller :
require 'roo'
class Api::V1::ProductsController < ApplicationController
respond_to :json
def index
comp_id = params[:company_id]
cat_id = params[:category_id]
if comp_id
if comp_id && cat_id
product = Product.where(:company_id => comp_id, :category_id => cat_id)
else
product = Product.where(:company_id => comp_id)
end
paginate json: product, status: 200
else
render json: { errors: "Company ID is NULL" }, status: 422
end
end
end
Gemfile.rb
source 'https://rubygems.org'
git_source(:github) do |repo_name|
repo_name = "#{repo_name}/#{repo_name}" unless repo_name.include?("/")
"https://github.com/#{repo_name}.git"
end
# Bundle edge Rails instead: gem 'rails', github: 'rails/rails'
gem 'rails', '~> 5.0.2'
# Use mysql as the database for Active Record
gem 'mysql2', '>= 0.3.18', '< 0.5'
# Use Puma as the app server
gem 'puma', '~> 3.0'
# Use SCSS for stylesheets
gem 'sass-rails', '~> 5.0'
# Use Uglifier as compressor for JavaScript assets
gem 'uglifier', '>= 1.3.0'
# Use CoffeeScript for .coffee assets and views
gem 'coffee-rails', '~> 4.2'
# See https://github.com/rails/execjs#readme for more supported runtimes
# gem 'therubyracer', platforms: :ruby
# Use jquery as the JavaScript library
gem 'jquery-rails'
# Turbolinks makes navigating your web application faster. Read more: https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks
gem 'turbolinks', '~> 5'
# Build JSON APIs with ease. Read more: https://github.com/rails/jbuilder
gem 'jbuilder', '~> 2.5'
#Devise Gem for Authentication
gem "devise"
#For JSON Serialization
gem 'active_model_serializers'
# Use Redis adapter to run Action Cable in production
# gem 'redis', '~> 3.0'
# Use ActiveModel has_secure_password
# gem 'bcrypt', '~> 3.1.7'
gem 'carrierwave'
gem 'roo'
#For Pagination
gem 'will_paginate'
gem 'api-pagination'
group :development, :test do
# Call 'byebug' anywhere in the code to stop execution and get a debugger console
gem 'byebug', platform: :mri
end
group :development do
# Access an IRB console on exception pages or by using <%= console %> anywhere in the code.
gem 'web-console', '>= 3.3.0'
gem 'listen', '~> 3.0.5'
# Spring speeds up development by keeping your application running in the background. Read more: https://github.com/rails/spring
gem 'spring'
gem 'spring-watcher-listen', '~> 2.0.0'
# Use Capistrano for deployment
gem 'capistrano', group: :development
gem 'capistrano-rails', group: :development
gem 'capistrano3-puma', group: :development
end
# Windows does not include zoneinfo files, so bundle the tzinfo-data gem
gem 'tzinfo-data', platforms: [:mingw, :mswin, :x64_mingw, :jruby]
Can someone tell me where I'm going wrong?

Answer 1

Try to make sure your ApplicationController inherits from ActionController::API instead of ActionController::Base. And if for some reason you can't update your controller, you can include the Rails::Pagination module into your ApplicationController manually.
credits
Update:
class ApplicationController
include Rails::Pagination
......
....
end