How to set up the Wistia ruby gem in a rails project

Question

The wistia-api gem ( https://github.com/wistia/wistia-api ) says that I have to set the Wistia password like so:

Wistia.password = 'your-api-password-here'

Where do I add this line of code in my rails project?

I've added it to environment.rb but when I run rails console it gives me an unknown constant error.

Answer 1

you have to make sure you install the right gem first, in gemfile put

gem wistia-api then run bundle install if you are using rails 4, in /config/initializers folder create a file called wistia_api.rb , write:

require 'wistia'

Wistia.use_config!(:wistia => {
  :api => {
    :password => ENV['WISTIA_API_PASSWORD'],
    :format => 'json'
  }
})

then you should be good to use it in rails console

Answer 2

You're getting an unknown constant error because the Wistia module isn't loaded yet. You need to require 'wistia' before trying to call it.

Generally it's best to do things like this in an initializer, so you could create config/initializers/wistia.rb and put in it:

require 'wistia'

Wistia.password = 'your-api-password-here'

Answer 3

如果您阅读了wistia gem的文档，可以选择将这些凭据放入yml配置文件中： https ： //github.com/wistia/wistia-api#configuration-options