Ruby on Rails: Default will_paginate to last page of results

Question

Is there an easy way, to default will_paginate to last page? I would like to show user latest addition and allow to browse previuos pages of results...

Answer 1

Just order your query so that it's in reverse chronological order.

Post.paginate(:page => (params[:page] || 1), :per_page => 20 :order => "created_at desc")

Answer 2

The proper way to do it is to reverse the sorting order, i.e. add

    :order => 'created_at DESC'

to your paginate call. User would expect the "latest addition" on the beginning, and older ones on the following pages.