rails-jwplayer

Rails::Jwplayer

rails-jwplayer is JW Player for Rails, it provides a jwplayer_tag helper to create JW Player video plugin. Current version of JW Player is 7.10.5

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'rails-jwplayer'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install rails-jwplayer

And add this require statement to your application.js file:
//= require rails-jwplayer

Configuration

you need to create configuration file jwplayer.rb, and setup the jwplayer.key

# config/initializers/jwplayer.rb
Rails::Jwplayer.key = "your jwplayer key"

Usage

First include jwplayer config on the page

<%= jwplayer_config_include %>

Than place a div with JW Player

<%= jwplayer_tag(file: "you video url")  %>

You can pass other options to jwplayer helper to customize it:

<%= jwplayer_tag(file: "you video url", width: 400, height: 300, autostart: true, repeat: true)  %>

More information for customization could be found JW Player configuration

You can use the Javascript API component of JW Player, This API can be used to enhance the functionality of your video embeds, or to implement rich page-level video interactions, more information JW Player Javascript API

jwplayer.on('pause', function(event){
    console.log('pause');
});

Or get the pause method

jwplayer.pause()

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/xuyao91/rails-jwplayer. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.