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rubyruby-on-rails-3htmlhtml5-video
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Reputation: 2899

HTML5 Video and Rails 3

I have been trying for the past 2 hours to make HTML5 Video work. Could somebody show me what I am doing wrong? I have a home controller that has ONLY ONE action called index which I use to render the home page (index.html.erb). My route file is:

TEST::Application.routes.draw do
  get "home/index"

  root :to => 'home#index'

..
..

My index.html.erb file has ONLY THIS LINES:

<div class="row"> <h3>TEST </h3> </div>

<div class="row">

    <div class="span12">
        <%= video_tag("test_video_1.ogg", :size => "320x240", :controls => true, :autobuffer => true) %>
    </div>


</div>

I added this to my "config/application.rb" file:

# Enable the asset pipeline
config.assets.enabled = true
config.assets.paths << "#{Rails.root}/app/assets/videos"

The stupid video file is there. In "/app/assets/videos". I am using thin server. Now why the buck do I get this error?

Started GET "/videos/test_video_1.ogg" for 127.0.0.1 at 2012-10-01 13:13:00 +0100

ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches [GET] "/videos/test_video_1.ogg"):

Could somebody explain me what is happening?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2070

Answers (1)

Paulo Casaretto
Paulo Casaretto

Reputation: 1027

It seems video_tag looks for stuff under your public folder so you have two options. Put your video under public/videos and remove the extra path from the assets paths or manually write the video tag pointing to "assets/test_video_1.ogg". (Notice the lack of "videos" here)

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/AssetTagHelper.html#method-i-video_tag

Upvotes: 3

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