videos_controller.rb

# don't forget to turn off forgery protection:
# protect_from_forgery :except => [:swfupload, :encode_notify]

# if you're not using swfupload, code like this would be in your create and update methods
# all you really need to ensure is that after @video.save, you run @video.encode!
def swfupload
  @video = Video.new(params[:video])
  @video.swfupload_file = params[:Filedata]
  # if we're in production, test should be nil but otherwise we're going to want to encode
  # videos using Zencoder's test setting so we're not spending cash to do so
  RAILS_ENV == "production" ? test = {} : test = {:test => 1}
  if @video.save && @video.encode!(test)
    render :json => {:message => "Video was successfully uploaded.  Encoding has commenced automatically."}
  else
    render :json => {:errors => @video.errors.full_messages.to_sentence.capitalize}
  end
end

def encode_notify
  # get the job id so we can find the video
  video = Video.find_by_job_id(params[:job][:id].to_i)
  video.capture_notification(params[:output]) if video
  render :text => "Thanks, Zencoder!", :status => 200
end