ecleel / jquery-oembed-rails

jquery-oembed-all rails assets pipeline

jquery-oembed-rails

Rails assets gem for the amazing jquery-oembed-all plugin.

oEmbed

oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as photos or videos) when a user posts a link to that resource, without having to parse the resource directly.

http://oembed.com/

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'jquery-oembed-rails'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install jquery-oembed-rails

Usage

Add this line to application.js

//= require jquery.oembed

Also Add this line for application.css

*= require jquery.oembed

Then add this to you javascript file.

$(function(){
   $("a.embed").oembed();
});

Add class="embed" to anchor tag which contains the URL you wish to embed.
Ex: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mwKq7_JlS8" class="embed"></a> or use link_to helper method <%= link_to link.url, link.url, class: 'embed' %>

for more information about plugin options read [Jquery-Oembed-All readme file] (https://github.com/nfl/jquery-oembed-all/blob/master/README.md)

Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/jquery-oembed-rails/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request