Ruby on Rails

hr> hey everyone i want to add a video and play it using ruby on rails .
hr> how can i do it. can anyone help me plzz..

hr> Thanks in advance

After struggling with this for several days, I have finally been able to get some videos to play in Rails 3.1.2.  There may be other ways of playing videos and if there are I'd sure like to hear about
it.

Here is some preliminary documentation.  I'm gonna write up more when I get all the kinks out.


The following instructions are for Rails 3.1.2

1) Download from here: http://rubydoc.info/gems/jw_player_helper/0.0.1/file/README.markdown#


2) Add
    gem 'jw_player_helper'
  to your Gemfile


3) Do
    bundle install
  or
    bundle install --deployment
  depending on your needs.


4) Assuming that you are using sprockets (which seems to be the recommended default), make sure that swfobject.js is accessible from your assets.

  You can check if swfobject.js is accessible by displaying Rails.application.config.assets.paths.

  Rails.application.config.assets.paths is an array of fully qualified directory names where assets can be found.  Make sure that swfobject.js is in one of the directories and not in a subdirectory
  of one of these directories.


5) Place your video(s) in a directory underneath public.  I chose a directory named "videos".

  = video_player( {:file => 'videos/my_video.flv'}, {:width => '100%'} )



Let me know if you get videos to work and if this sketch of documentation needs to be beefed up.

Oh, this sketch is due to a frustrating 5 days of trying to get videos to play on 3.1.2.  I hope it takes you a lot less time.

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