Vimeo Gem API Rails

Question

I have a vimeo account that I would like to link the videos from my account to posts in my rails app.

I have the Vimeo Gem and I'm having difficulty understanding how I implement the API within my post.

For each post created I want to link a video file to the post based on a column from my database which I input the video id.

Does anyone know of any tutorials or example regarding this gem?

Schema

create_table "vimeo", :force => true do |t|
    t.string   "title"
    t.text     "description"
    t.integer  "vimeo_clip_id"
    t.datetime "created_at",    :null => false
    t.datetime "updated_at",    :null => false
  end

Controller

Show

@vimeo = Vimeo.find(params[:id])
@video = Vimeo.where(:vimeo_clip_id)
@vimeo = Vimeo::Simple::Video.info(@video)

View

<p><%= @vimeo.title %></p>

Outputs 'video_id is not a valid method.'.

Not sure how to implement the API so it recognises my Vimeo user id and then displays the video as per my video_clip_id I input.

Answer 1

You have to replace video_id with the vimeo_clip_id value. For example in the console

Vimeo::Simple::Video.info "78673338"

returns

<HTTParty::Response:0x7ff09a9076e8 large_chunk_of_data_here>

You can create the link you want with the data you receive. In your controller:

def show
  @vimeo = Vimeo.find params[:id]
  @link_url = Vimeo::Simple::Video.info(@vimeo.vimeo_clip_id)[0]['url']
end

and in the view:

link_to @vimeo.title, @link_url

Please note the following:

• The controller code can be cleaned up. You probably don't want to be doing the retrieving of the link URL in the controller every time the show page is rendered. Instead you want to be storing that information with your Vimeo object.
• Inspect the response from the Vimeo API to find out what the [0]['url'] part does.
• The view code just displays a text link. You can explore other options such as a preview image later.