Spud Videos

Spud Videos is an engine for managing and embedding Youtube / Vimeo videos, designed for use with Spud and Spud CMS.

Installation/Usage

  1. In your Gemfile add the following

    gem 'spud_videos'

  2. Run bundle install

  3. Copy in database migrations to your new rails project

    bundle exec rake railties:install:migrations rake db:migrate

  4. Run a rails server instance and point your browser to /spud/admin

Configuration

Spud Videos accepts the following configuration options:

Spud::Videos.configure do |config|
  config.base_layout = "application"
  config.enable_videos_route = true
  config.default_dimensions = [560,315]
end

Adding a Video

Videos are added in the Spud admin. When adding a video, you can specify wether the video is hosted on youtube or vimeo. It is also possible to specify a name and description for the video which can be rendered on the /videos url. In many cases, it may be unnecessary to have the videos route. Spud Videos makes it easy to embed videos into spud_cms pages by using liquid tags.

Helpers

Videos provides a helper method for rendering these embedded videos:

spud_video(set_or_identifier, options)

Example:

spud_video(:promotional, {:width => 500, :height => 300})

Liquid

Spud Videos comes with its own custom Liquid tag. For now the liquid tag only supports rendering the standard html as generated by the spud_video. Will support more advanced options in the future.

Usage:

  <%= raw Liquid::Template.parse("{% video Promotion width=500 height=300 %}").render %>

Testing

Spud uses RSpec for testing. Get the tests running with a few short commands:

  1. Create and migrate the databases:

    rake db:create rake db:migrate

  2. Load the schema in to the test database:

    rake app:db:test:prepare

  3. Run the tests with RSpec

    rspec spec

After the tests have completed the current code coverage stats is available by opening /coverage/index.html in a browser.