i working on rails app, , hitting roadblock: need return several items in table are, say, 6th-8th matching items. ironically, rails has helper method shown here .first through .fifth. my question is: how can find these results when n searching 6,7,8 , on without calling of 1st through 8th items? here's why doing this. making home page blog. @ top, want show 5 recent posts (which shown image). underneath them, want show additional 3 links posts text. currently, doing first part fine. in blog.controller.rb : @posts = post.order('created_at desc').first(5) i iterate through posts in view, , shows first 5 recent results. want show 6th-8th, , try , store them in new method. change controller to: @posts = post.order('created_at desc').first(5) @texts = post.order('created_at desc').limit(8) this returns 8 recent posts instead of, say, 8th. is possible me limit @texts show matching 6th, 7th, , 8th results? yes. you'...
