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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