Kaminari is a Ruby pagination library and ActiveRecord tool designed to divide large datasets into smaller pages using limit and offset logic. It functions as a data paging utility that manages record offsets and total count calculations for Ruby web applications.
The project distinguishes itself by generating SEO-friendly navigation links and standardized HTML tags to improve search engine indexing. It supports localized navigation labels and translation files for multilingual interface design, and allows for customizable pagination themes via template overrides of view partials.
The library provides capabilities for dataset page splitting across both database queries and non-database collections using an array pagination wrapper. It includes performance optimizations such as skipping total record count queries for large tables and restricting the maximum number of pages or records per page. General functionality covers the calculation of collection metadata, the rendering of page entry information, and the generation of navigational links.
