Manual data for page_entries_info and will_paginate view helpers

[ninjonxb]

I am working on implementing an API that is using pagination for pagination and than another service that uses pagination to display the view.
The issue I am running into is the view helpers.
In the API if I just run "as_json" on the paginated results, it will only have the results with no paginate data.
After searching I found someone suggesting I do:

    render :json => {
      :current_page => query_results.current_page,
      :per_page => query_results.per_page,
      :total_entries => query_results.total_entries,
      :total_pages => query_results.total_pages,
      :entries => query_results
    }

But same issue.
I am trying to figure out if there is a better way to be doing this (I want to do paginate api side due to the number of records).
I tried to figure out if there was a way I could send the options into page_entries_info as a hash but I could not find it documented anywhere.