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Manuel da Costa
Manuel da Costa

Reputation: 107

youtube embed links not showing up in Rails view

I have tried to display an youtube embedded iframe of a link (that a user would input and save in a form)

The embedded video doesnt show up. All i get is blank space.

Here is my code

<iframe width="560" height="315" src= "<%= video.link %>" frameborder="1" allowfullscreen></iframe>

I have checked the source code

screenshot here http://screencast.com/t/gmQAiFHEj

In the source you can see it displaying the URLS of the youtube videos but how can i get it render?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1560

Answers (2)

Aleks
Aleks

Reputation: 5330

Deefour is right. I am posting an answer just to show you a better way to display youtube videos (it is going to be easier for you)

Create a partial _youtube.html.erb and paste:

<iframe width="490" height="275" src="<%= url %>" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Then add in you Application controller:

module ApplicationHelper
  def youtube_video(url)
    render :partial => 'shared/youtube', :locals => { :url => url }
  end 
end

And then in your views call:

<%= youtube_video @video.url %>

But yes, try not to copy wrong link, use, links like: 

"http://www.youtube.com/embed/NWHfY_lvKIQ"

Upvotes: 3

deefour
deefour

Reputation: 35360

The YouTube URL you're using is not a proper embed URL.

YouTube blocks direct embed requests when using the direct URL to the YouTube page.

See the example below showing the difference (the above Right URL works fine).

Upvotes: 7

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