Ruby on Rails: Will paginate AJAX not rendering the next page - ruby-on-rails

Question

I am using the Will paginate gem with Ruby on Rails (4.2) and to render the pages I am using Ajax. I am using the will paginate helper to do it. And it is making the request for the pages correctly and receiving the response as well but not rendering the next HTML page.
Can anyone tell me what is missing in it?
Am using :
<%= ajax_will_paginate #itmes, :params => { :my_excluded_param => nil } %>
to make pagination links.
Here is my pagination helper:
module WillPaginateHelper
class WillPaginateAjaxLinkRenderer < WillPaginate::ActionView::LinkRenderer
def prepare(collection, options, template)
options[:params] ||= {}
options[:params]["_"] = nil
super(collection, options, template)
end
protected
def link(text, target, attributes = {})
if target.is_a? Fixnum
attributes[:rel] = rel_value(target)
target = url(target)
end
ajax_call = "$.ajax({url: '#{target}', dataType: 'script'});"
#template.link_to_function(text.to_s.html_safe, ajax_call, attributes)
end
end
def ajax_will_paginate(collection, options = {})
will_paginate(collection, options.merge(:renderer => WillPaginateHelper::WillPaginateAjaxLinkRenderer))
end
end
And my controller function is:
def index
#items = Item.paginate(:per_page => 5, :page => params[:page])
end
I added the code index.js.erb
and now the terminal log is:
and now the terminal log is:
Started GET "/items?page=2&_=1399700653418" for 127.0.0.1 at 2014-05-10 11:14:16 +0530
Processing by ItemsController#index as JS
Parameters: {"page"=>"2", "_"=>"1399700653418"}
User Load (0.4ms) SELECT "users".* FROM "users" WHERE "users"."id" = 2 ORDER BY "users"."id" ASC LIMIT 1
Rendered items/index.js.erb (12.7ms)
Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 20ms
ActionView::Template::Error (Missing partial items/items, application/items with {:locale=>[:en], :formats=>[:js, "application/ecmascript", "application/x-ecmascript", :html, :text, :css, :ics, :csv, :png, :jpeg, :gif, :bmp, :tiff, :mpeg, :xml, :rss, :atom, :yaml, :multipart_form, :url_encoded_form, :json, :pdf, :zip], :handlers=>[:erb, :builder, :raw, :ruby, :jbuilder, :coffee]}. Searched in:
* "/var/www/selectcom/app/views"
* "/home/randhir/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/gems/kaminari-0.15.1/app/views"
* "/home/randhir/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.1.0/gems/devise-3.2.4/app/views"
):
1: <%= "$('body').html('#{escape_javascript(render 'items')}');".html_safe %>
app/views/items/index.js.erb:1:in `_app_views_items_index_js_erb__4572043876272285855_69867408217600'

Answer 1

you did not create a partial file named items to be rendered on ajax request. Try as below.
app/controllers/items_controller.rb
def index
#items = Item.paginate(:per_page => 5, :page => params[:page])
end
views/items/index.html.erb
<div class = "sort_paginate_ajax"><%= render 'items' %></div>
views/items/_items.html.erb
<% #items.each do |item| %>
# your code
<%= item.name %>
<% end %>
<%= ajax_will_paginate #items %>
views/items/index.js.erb
$('.sort_paginate_ajax').html("<%= escape_javascript(render("items"))%>")