Converting a regular Youtube 'link' into an embedded video

Question

My goal: I am trying to allow users to embed a link to a Youtube video in my site, while giving me control over the player\'s settings.

I would like to do this by only a

Answer 1

I think the simplest way to achieve what you're trying to do is the following:

You're trying to get from this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb-gmJVW5lw

To this:

So you can just simply do this:

#### Use a regular expression to extract the video code
@video_id = (/([\w-]{11})/.match(@v_url)).to_s
#### Put this information in the right format
@embed_code = ""

And then in your view, just do:

<%= raw(@embed_code) %>