I had the same problem. I changed the path to clippy.swf and it works fine. Make sure you have the right path!
This is what my clip helper looks like when clippy.swf is directly in / public
def clippy(text, bgcolor='#FFFFFF') html = <<-EOF <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="110" height="14" id="clippy" > <param name="movie" value="/clippy.swf"/> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <param name="scale" value="noscale" /> <param NAME="FlashVars" value="text=#{text}"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#{bgcolor}"> <embed src="/clippy.swf" width="110" height="14" name="clippy" quality="high" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" FlashVars="text=#{text}" bgcolor="#{bgcolor}" /> </object> EOF end
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