Working With Rails

Hi,
I have a problem while customizing will_paginate, as I wanted to pass a additional object with the will_paginate tag, which is not acceptable now and it is giving error.
the syntax accepted in normal case is:
<= will_paginate @deals , :class=>”red paging leftfloat”, :update => “listing”>

want to extend like this:
<= will_paginate @deals , :deals_obj => @deals_obj, :class=>”red paging leftfloat”, :update => “listing”>

Please find a corrective solution to this
Any kind of help/suggestion is welcome.

Thanks
Martin