Datatables is a nifty jquery plugin that adds the ability to paginate, sort, and search your html tables. When dealing with large tables (more than a couple hundred rows) however, we run into performance issues. These can be fixed by using server-side pagination, but this breaks some datatables functionality.
ajax-datatables-rails is a wrapper around datatable's ajax methods that allow synchronization with server-side pagination in a rails app.
Add these lines to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'jquery-datatables-rails'
gem 'ajax-datatables-rails'
And then execute:
$ bundle
The following examples assume that we are setting up ajax-datatables-rails for an index of users from a User model
Run the following command:
$ rails generate ajaxdatatable User
This will generate a file named users_datatable.rb in app/datatables. Open the file and customize in the functions as directed by the comments
def initialize(view)
@model_name = User
@columns = # insert array of column names here
@searchable_columns = #insert array of columns that will be searched
super(view)
end- Fork it
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Added some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create new Pull Request