Adding Zype to a Rails Application

1. Add the Zype Gem to your Gemfile and bundle.

gem 'zype', :git => 'git://github.com/edla/zype-cli.git'

2. Add your Zype Configurations to the initializers directory

# Create a new file config/initializers/zype.rb

  Zype.configure do |config|
    config.api_key = {api_key}
    config.host    =  "api.zype.com"
    config.port    =  80
    config.use_ssl = false
  end

You can find your api key from the Zype Platform

3. Add the following javascript to your layout.html.erb to be able to power the appropriate player javascript.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://api.zype.com/player.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"> zype.player_key = {player_key};</script>

You can find your player key from the Zype Platform

4. Create a new instance of your Zype Client so that you can query the Zype Platform to get your videos, playlists, categories, zobjects, and appropriate video players from your Rails App.

@zype = Zype::Client.new

5. Some things that you can do with your Zype Client that could be useful for a web app:

• Get all your videos

@zype.videos

• Get a specific video

@zype.videos.find(params[:video_id])

• Change pagination

@zype.videos.all(per_page: 500)

• Pagination

@zype.videos.all(page: 2, per_page: 50)

• Sort (ex. sort by video title)

@zype.videos.all(sort: ‘title’, order: ‘asc’)

• Query by zobject type (example: genre)

@zype.zobjects.all(‘zobject_name’, {})

• Query videos by category (example genre)

@zype.videos.all(category: {genre: ‘Comedy’})

• Get the player for a video

@video = @zype.videos.find(params[:video_id])
@player = @video.player(player_opts)

6. Display the video player in your HTML view

<%= @player['body'].html_safe %>