Integral Video Embed

Helps embed videos from known providers like YouTube into HTML

1. Ruby 2.5.0+

To install, run:

gem install integral-video-embed

Add the following to your Gemfile:

gem "integral-video-embed"

1. Probably, within a Rails helper:

   def bootstrap_embed(uid)
     Integral::Video::Embed::Bootstrap.html(uid, provider: "YouTube", proportions: "16by9").html_safe
   end
   
   def embed_vk(uid, hash:)
     Integral::Video::Embed::Generic.html(uid, provider: "Вконтакте").html_safe
   end

2. and within a Rails view:

   = embed_youtube(@video.uid)
   = embed_vk(@video.uid, @video.uhash)

This is a very cool technique by Amit Agarwal that allows not to download the YouTube player with its whole bunch of resources for each embedded video — untill the user clicks on it — but instead show a lightweight proxy of a YouTube player (a poster and a button) that looks almost the same as the player.

To use Labnol embed you have to bring CSS / JS dependency. I improved the original code a little and put it right into the gem folder.

1. Copy & paste vendor/assets/plugins/youtube-labnol-extended-1.3 folder into you Rails /vendor/assets/plugins folder.

2. To include plugins folder add it to assets.rb:

   Rails.application.config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join("vendor", "assets", "plugins")

3. Make button image (button.svg) publicly accessible with help of app/assets/config/manifest.js

   //= link ../../../vendor/assets/plugins/youtube-labnol-extended-1.3/button.svg

And then as usual:

1. within a Rails helper:

   def embed_labnol(uid, thumbnail: nil)
     Integral::Video::Embed::Labnol.html(uid, thumbnail: thumbnail).html_safe
   end

2. and within a Rails view:

   = embed_labnol(@video.uid)

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