Turns your rails app into an oembed provider

Oembed is an open format for embedding media from third-party providers. This gem is a mountable engine that turns your rails 3 app into an oembed provider allowing oembed consumers to easily embed your media resources into their site.

Add the following to your Gemfile:

gem "oembed_provider_engine"

Add a config/initializers/oembed_provider.rb file to configure your provider settings:

OembedProviderEngine::OembedProvider.provider_name = "Example Provider"
OembedProviderEngine::OembedProvider.provider_url  = "http://example.com"

If a controller doesn’t map to model name as per tablize convention, map it like this:

OembedProviderEngine::OembedProvider.controller_model_maps = { 'example' => 'FooBar' }

To declare your model providable, include the following:

include OembedProvider::OembedProvidable
# the first argument is the oembed type, that is one of :rich, :link, :photo, or :video
oembed_providable_as :rich

Your model has to provide methods to give what oembed_provider expects for your oembed type. Those methods need to make sure that request parameters maxheight and maxwidth are obeyed, see oembed specs for details.

If the methods have names different from the respective oembed attributes, you need to match them here:

# data for the oembed attribute 'title' is provided by a method named 'label'
oembed_providable_as :link, title: :label

You can also override the provider settings from the initializer:

oembed_providable_as :link, provider_name: 'Example'

If you want to allow for oembed discovery, you can use the helper function from this engine to add links to the HTML head:

<%= oembed_provider_links %>

The engine adds a route /oembed to your app, which is your oembed api endpoint. By default, it returns json, but it may as well return xml or json-p. Following the oembed specs, a request parameter format can be used to specify the requested format (xml or json). If you add request parameters variable or callback, json-p is returned instead of json. The engine also provides the additional endpoints /oembed.xml and /oembed.json which return the respective format.

The current implementation directly accesses your application’s model to fetch the data for the response. This may bypass your applicaton’s authorization and expose non-public data via oembed if your model does not take this into account!

• proper handling of unauthorized

• migrate from shoulda to rspec

• caching

• allow for custom, additional fields in the response

Feel free to fork the project and send us pull requests.

This gem is heavily based upon the rails 2 gem oembed-provider originally developed by Walter McGinnis for kete.

Kerstin Puschke, Hinnerk Altenburg, George Avramidis and Ömür Özkir

You can find out more about our work on our dev blog.

Thanks to all who have made contributions to this gem as well as its rails 2 predecessor.

Copyright © 2012 XING AG

Released under the MIT license. For full details see MIT-LICENSE included in this distribution.