SWF Ditty (swiff ditty)

A simple and flexible Sinatra helper for embedding SWFs in your views. Requires jQuery and jQuery SWFObject.

Installation

Install gemcutter if you haven’t already:

  sudo gem install gemcutter
  gem tumble

Install the ratpack gem:

  sudo gem install swf_ditty

Drop this line in your app:

  gem 'swf_ditty'
  require 'sinatra/swf_ditty'

Usage

The following example assumes you’re using haml and my ratpack helpers gem (for the `javascript_include_tag` method):

  %html
    %head
      =javascript_include_tag %w(jquery-1.3.2.min jquery.swfobject.1-0-7.min)
    %body
      = swf 'my_swf.swf'
      = swf 'subdirectory/of/public/another.swf', :width => 500, :height => 300
      = swf 'http://example.com/yet_another.swf', :wmode => 'opaque'

Passing in FlashVars is easy:

  = swf 'swf/foo.swf', :flashvars => {:foo => 'chacha', :bar => 250}

By default, a DOM element is automatically created based on a variation of the swf filename, but you can override it like so:

  = swf 'swf/foo.swf', :dom_id => 'custom_dom_dom_doobie', :create_dom_container => false

See full auto-generated documentation at rdoc.info/projects/zeke/swf_ditty

Colophon

• Thanks to the Sinatra page on Writing Extensions
• Tests modified from wbzyl/sinatra-static-assets
• Gem built with Jeweler

Copyright

Copyright © 2009 Zeke Sikelianos. See LICENSE for details.