Hey Nahum!  Remember running into this post a while back.
Haven't used it personally, but it seems like a pretty simple cursor
implementation:
http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2007/4/6/faking-cursors-in-activerecord


On Feb 3, 10:36 am, nahum <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been looking at that already, but I don't believe I can pass a
> block which it runs for each page - which is what I want.  I've still
> gotta manually write a loop etc... which is the same as using :limit
>
> Nahum
>
> On Feb 3, 10:27 am, Jeremy Olliver <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Yeah, the will_paginate plugin is really good, extends all AR find methods
> > to take :page, and :per_page options.
>
> > check outhttp://github.com/mislav/will_paginate/
>
> > Cheers,
> > Jeremy
>
> > 2009/2/3 nahum <[email protected]>
>
> > > yeah, but it'd rather not repeat myself everytime I want to do this.
> > > there are plugins that extend find and do this for me, just wanting to
> > > know if rails does it already.
>
> > > Cheers,
> > > Nahum.
>
> > > On Feb 3, 9:35 am, Tim Haines <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > I'm pretty certain you'd know about the :limit and :offset (or whatever
> > > it
> > > > is) params you can pass to find - and you're looking for something that
> > > > offers a more fully built package?  Just checking.  :-)
>
> > > > T.
>
> > > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:16 AM, nahum <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > Hi,
>
> > > > > so I have X million records in my books table and I want to iterate
> > > > > through them all and do something (tm).  obviously I don't want to
> > > > > load them all at once.  so before I go looking for a plugin I was
> > > > > wondering if there was a native way in rails to handling this?
>
> > > > > It's the first thing you have to start dealing with as your site
> > > > > scales after all.... :-)
>
> > > > > Pass .each a block to run against groups of books maybe....
>
> > > > > Nahum.
>
> > --
> > Jeremy Olliver
> > Lead Developer
> > PlanHQ
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