jPlayer + Rails 3.1.3 swfPath? - ruby-on-rails

Question

I am trying to get jPlayer working with the flash fallback in a rails app and so far no luck! My constructor right now looks like this:
$("#jquery_jplayer_1").jPlayer({
preload: "auto",
errorAlerts: true,
swfPath: "javascripts",
solution: "flash, html",
supplied: "oga",
wmode: "window",
ended: function(e) {
...some function...
}
});
I cannot get the swfPath correct it seems, and I must be missing something here about how jPlayer is looking for that path. My other assets, such as images from stylesheets, seem to be correctly routed to the assets folder/images folder. I can't seem to find the magic combination to get jPlayer to find the Jplayer.swf. I have tried putting the swf file in the public folder, in a folder within the public folder, in the assets folder, and in the javascripts folder within the assets folder. No luck! Has anybody dealt with this problem before?

Answer 1

I have the same problem... After finding no answer on the Internet, I started trying stuff :)
This worked for me (Rails 3.2):
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#jplayer").jPlayer({
ready: function (event) {
$(this).jPlayer("setMedia", {
m4a: "url goes here"
});
},
swfPath: "/",
supplied: "m4a",
solution: "flash, html"
});
});
or in coffeescript:
$ = jQuery
$ ->
$(document).ready ->
$("#jplayer").jPlayer(
ready: (event) ->
$(this).jPlayer "setMedia",
m4a: "url goes here"
preload: "auto",
swfPath: "/",
solution: "html, flash",
supplied: 'm4a')
I placed the Jplayer.swf file under public/. Works now!

Answer 2

I think a nifty way of doing this is to add a swf dir to the asset pipeline.
You can do this by adding
config.assets.paths << Rails.root.join("app", "assets", "swf")
to your config/application.rb file and drop the Jplayer.swf file in vendor/swf/Jplayer.swf
In your JS file you import this by using .js.erb
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#jplayer").jPlayer({
swfPath: "<%= asset_path "Jplayer.swf" %>"
});
});

Answer 3

Since nobody has mentioned it here yet, you can also do it like this in your jplayer initialization code:
Works with Rails >= 3.2 that uses the asset pipeline!
swfPath: "<%= escape_javascript(asset_path('jplayer/Jplayer.swf')) %>",
solution: "flash,html",
supplied: "rtmpa,mp3",
And remember the file has a capital J :-)