VideoJS for Rails Asset Pipeline

Supports Rails 3.x and 4.x

Installation

Add to your Gemfile

gem 'videojs_rails'

And run bundle to install the library.

bundle

Add the resources to your application.js file

# app/assets/javascripts/application.js
//= require video

And that resource to application.css file

/*
*= require_self
*= require video-js
*/

And to production.rb add this line

config.assets.precompile += %w( video-js.swf vjs.eot vjs.svg vjs.ttf vjs.woff )

Usage

<%= videojs_rails sources: { mp4: "http://domain.com/path/to/video.mp4", webm: "http://another.com/path/to/video.webm"}, setup: "{}", controls: false, width:"400" %>

If you want add a callback if user don't support JavaScript use block with displayed html code:

<%= videojs_rails sources: { mp4: "http://domain.com/path/to/video.mp4", webm: "http://another.com/path/to/video.webm" }, width:"400" do %>
	Please enable <b>JavaScript</b> to see this content.
<%- end %>

Captions

This is currently an experimental function.

<%= videojs_rails sources: { mp4: "http://domain.com/path/to/video.mp4" }, width:"400", captions: { en: { src: "http://domain.com/path/to/captions.vvt", label: "English" }, default_caption_language: :en } %>

Resources

http://videojs.com/ http://videojs.com/#getting-started

Updating this gem to the latest video.js release

Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/seanbehan/videojs_rails.git

Clone video.js repository

git clone https://github.com/videojs/video.js.git

Run the rake videojs:update task with the tag

TAG=v4.12.5
rake videojs:update

Note: The build will fail if you don't have grunt installed. To install it:

cd ../video.js
npm install -g grunt

Make sure everything is added to git

git add .
git ci -m "Update to $TAG"

Push to rubygems

rake release

nateware/videojs_rails