Let’s imagine we have a user has_many likes structure. I need this to show pagination in real life with eager loading and etc.

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  PER_PAGE = 10

  has_many :likes
end

...

class Like < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :user
end

I’ll just put full gist and explain some important notes down below.

We probably should move reverse_paginate method to application_controller in order to stay DRY, but i’ll leave it to you . We also need to implement helper to show pagination in views.

module PaginationHelper
  def reverse_links_pagination
    pagination_element = content_tag :div, '', :class => 'pagination'

    (1..@paginator.total_pages).to_a.reverse.each do |page|
      pagination_element << link_to(page, users_path(:page => page), :class => "#{ page == @paginator.page ? 'active' : '' }"
    end
    
    pagination_element
  end
end

And now you can use reverse pagination in views

= render @users

= reverse_links_pagination