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 )

In Rails > 4.1 Add this line to config/initializers/assets.rb

Rails.application.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 } %>

Turbolinks

Some of you might want to use VideoJS with Turbolinks. andrkrn provided CoffeeScript that he use:

change = ->
    for player in document.getElementsByClassName 'video-js'
        video = videojs('example_video')

before_change = ->
    for player in document.getElementsByClassName 'video-js'
        video = videojs('example_video')
        video.dispose()

$(document).on('page:before-unload', before_change)
$(document).on('page:change', change)

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

• $VIDEO_JS_RAILS_HOME/vendor/assets/javascripts/video.js.erb
• $VIDEO_JS_RAILS_HOME/vendor/assets/stylesheets/video-js.css.erb

Alternatively, you can set the Flash player SWF file in your web view with the videojs.options.flash.swf command:

<script>
  videojs.options.flash.swf = "http://example.com/path/to/video-js.swf"
</script>

As the instructions here suggests: https://github.com/videojs/video.js/blob/stable/docs/guides/setup.md#self-hosted