Simple Object Embed Tags for Ruby on Rails

January 12th, 2007

I really dig SWFObject in Javascript for making nice lightweight flash objects. What I really need, much more often though, is a way to present any Flash, Movie, Game, Song, or Thing easily in a view, and for it to be just like any other ActionView Helper.

So here is what I use, probably more often than any other plugin (except acts_as_authenticated)



./script/plugin install svn://ahgsoftware.com/simple_object/trunk

It’ll take whatever arbitrary parameters you give it, however, I’m lazy as hell and I just call it with no parameters, and let the code handle inferring decent defaults (although for video/image/swf you’ll want at least the width/height). Here’s how I use it.

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simple_object '/swfs/game.swf'

simple_object '/songs/test.mp3'

simple_object '/swfs/mp3player.swf',:url=>"/mp3s/tool.mp3"

simple_object 'test.mov',:width=>"640",:height=>"480"

# and so on..

I’ll be adding support for more filetypes shortly. Enjoy!

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