(deprecated and removed as of rails 2.0) (take a look at will_paginate for plugin/gem http://github.com/mislav/will_paginate ) Pagination in the Controller Simple Pagination First, see if the Pagination Helper will suit your purposes. It currently allows for :include, :joins, :conditions, and :order. In fact, it does its work using Model.find(:all, *params). This should get you by in most cases.