written by billturner #merb freenode irc channel.
Q. "@current_page = (params[:page] || 1).to_i " what does that refers to?
A. billturner> when you use the pagination, and the <%= paginate(..) %> stuff, it gives you links like /posts/index?page=2
A. billturner> so, if there's no "page=X" then it will pull the first page of results
Creating static data for your Rails application
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How to create flexible and maintainable static data for your Rails
application using static_association.