From mmangino at elevatedrails.com  Fri Nov  2 12:58:23 2007
From: mmangino at elevatedrails.com (Mike Mangino)
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 11:58:23 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Some proposed changes
Message-ID: <916DA7F6-1A42-46A6-AE38-7DE892A5E42E@elevatedrails.com>

I've got some changes queued up that I want to run by everyone before  
I commit.

First, I've added a filter that sets the :format variable to "fbml"  
when you are in the canvas view. That means with edge rails you can  
use index.fbml.erb for facebook and index.html.erb for non facebook  
requests and the right thing will happen. This is important for doing  
things with OpenSocial (which is IFrame based.)

I also modified init.rb to include Facebooker::Rails::Controller in  
subclasses of ActionController::Base. Without this change, redirect_to  
is defined in the wrong place and is too far back in the ancestors  
change to ever get used. This makes facebooker usable out of the box  
for me. My controller now looks like:


class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
   session :off
   ensure_application_is_installed_by_facebook_user
end

Does anyone object to these changes? The format change could cause  
issues for people on edge, but is he right thing IMHO.

Mike

--
Mike Mangino
http://www.elevatedrails.com




From chad at chadfowler.com  Fri Nov  2 14:17:05 2007
From: chad at chadfowler.com (Chad Fowler)
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 14:17:05 -0400
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Some proposed changes
In-Reply-To: <916DA7F6-1A42-46A6-AE38-7DE892A5E42E@elevatedrails.com>
References: <916DA7F6-1A42-46A6-AE38-7DE892A5E42E@elevatedrails.com>
Message-ID: <0604E110-9F71-4405-A2F3-ACA08107D62A@chadfowler.com>





On Nov 2, 2007, at 12:58 PM, Mike Mangino <mmangino at elevatedrails.com>  
wrote:

> I've got some changes queued up that I want to run by everyone before
> I commit.
>
> First, I've added a filter that sets the :format variable to "fbml"
> when you are in the canvas view. That means with edge rails you can
> use index.fbml.erb for facebook and index.html.erb for non facebook
> requests and the right thing will happen. This is important for doing
> things with OpenSocial (which is IFrame based.)
>
> I also modified init.rb to include Facebooker::Rails::Controller in
> subclasses of ActionController::Base. Without this change, redirect_to
> is defined in the wrong place and is too far back in the ancestors
> change to ever get used. This makes facebooker usable out of the box
> for me. My controller now looks like:
>
>
> class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
>   session :off
>   ensure_application_is_installed_by_facebook_user
> end
>
> Does anyone object to these changes? The format change could cause
> issues for people on edge, but is he right thing IMHO
>


I agree on both of them.


Chad


> -
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk

From facebooker at tmm1.net  Mon Nov  5 18:39:33 2007
From: facebooker at tmm1.net (Aman Gupta)
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 19:39:33 -0400
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] JSON version of parser.rb
Message-ID: <e1c05edd0711051539k6ea07650n627552e9617a5b64@mail.gmail.com>

All Facebook API requests have a format option that can be set to
JSON, which results in a response which is both faster (marginally so,
but still) and uses a lot less bandwidth
(http://flickr.com/photos/agentdero/1550274105,
http://flickr.com/photos/agentdero/1551136674)

Any chance of Facebooker supporting JSON?

  Aman Gupta

From chad at chadfowler.com  Tue Nov  6 11:41:54 2007
From: chad at chadfowler.com (Chad Fowler)
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 11:41:54 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] JSON version of parser.rb
In-Reply-To: <e1c05edd0711051539k6ea07650n627552e9617a5b64@mail.gmail.com>
References: <e1c05edd0711051539k6ea07650n627552e9617a5b64@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <c67184de0711060841s6e4a9eebmaa4797c93d68b654@mail.gmail.com>

On 11/5/07, Aman Gupta <facebooker at tmm1.net> wrote:
>
> All Facebook API requests have a format option that can be set to
> JSON, which results in a response which is both faster (marginally so,
> but still) and uses a lot less bandwidth
> (http://flickr.com/photos/agentdero/1550274105,
> http://flickr.com/photos/agentdero/1551136674)
>
> Any chance of Facebooker supporting JSON?



I would be open to a patch to do this as long as it were well covered by
unit tests and it were done in such a way that JSON were entirely optional.
One of the reasons we wrote Facebooker is that we have a Ruby client install
into which we have to statically compile all external C libraries, so we
needed to keep externals minimal.

Chad
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From daniel.facebooker at tenner.org  Wed Nov  7 08:10:57 2007
From: daniel.facebooker at tenner.org (Daniel Tenner)
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 13:10:57 +0000
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Tutorials & release timetable
Message-ID: <8A638ABB-D132-49BB-9A94-52697A8E9ED2@tenner.org>

Hi,

I want to try Facebooker again for a new project, after a moderately  
painful couple of months with RFacebook. I see there is some activity  
on the project, but still can't find any docs or tutorials or such  
anywhere, and was wondering if anyone had located any of those hidden  
away somewhere in some dark confine of the internet... It would  
probably be quite handy to get some sort of list of them, if there  
are any, so any newcomer can check the mailing list archives to find  
these links... so do feel free to come forth with any possible  
examples :-)

Also wondering whether there's any time table yet for the first  
release of Facebooker... it appears to be ready enough for a number  
of people to be using it around the web. Perhaps releasing it would  
encourage them to put up articles describing how they're using it.

Cheers,

Daniel

From jon at professionalnerd.com  Fri Nov  9 13:58:07 2007
From: jon at professionalnerd.com (Jon Gilbraith)
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 18:58:07 +0000
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Helpers and URL Rewriting
Message-ID: <BBE60E0C-DC04-48B2-9F47-857C06C399BF@professionalnerd.com>

Hey folks,

I'm part way through a project using, I think rev 73 of Facebooker,  
and was getting along pretty well.  I've since tried the latest rev  
(86) and have run into a few problems.

First one was with the helpers in that for some reason now none of  
them are available so I've had to use helper :application, etc in my  
controller.

Second one, which unfortunately means I think I'll have to switch  
back to the older revision is with the URL rewriting.  I'm writing an  
application that's available outside of Facebook too and I'm finding  
that on non canvas pages my canvas path still is being added to all  
my generated URLs.  In addition, with my stylesheet the basename had  
been substituted too.  The svn logs suggested that possibly work on  
the URL rewrite might not be complete, is that the right assumption?

Anyway, I hope this is the best way to let you know these sorts of  
things.  All is pretty quiet on the bug tracker and here on the  
mailing list so I'm guessing some of you are communicating directly.

My ruby skills are still pretty amateurish so doubt I'll be able to  
contribute any code but if this sort info is of help then maybe I'll  
be able to help with some testing.

Cheers,

Jon

From mmangino at elevatedrails.com  Fri Nov  9 15:49:54 2007
From: mmangino at elevatedrails.com (Mike Mangino)
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 14:49:54 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Helpers and URL Rewriting
In-Reply-To: <BBE60E0C-DC04-48B2-9F47-857C06C399BF@professionalnerd.com>
References: <BBE60E0C-DC04-48B2-9F47-857C06C399BF@professionalnerd.com>
Message-ID: <0DEB4CF0-EB7D-429C-B98A-89E5770884C2@elevatedrails.com>

Oops. At least part of that was my fault. I broke the helper and  
layout loading. I'll get that fixed and checked in shortly.

Is it a problem to have the canvas path added to your non-facebook URLs?

How would you determine which links should have the canvas path added  
and which should not?

Mike

On Nov 9, 2007, at 12:58 PM, Jon Gilbraith wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> I'm part way through a project using, I think rev 73 of Facebooker,
> and was getting along pretty well.  I've since tried the latest rev
> (86) and have run into a few problems.
>
> First one was with the helpers in that for some reason now none of
> them are available so I've had to use helper :application, etc in my
> controller.
>
> Second one, which unfortunately means I think I'll have to switch
> back to the older revision is with the URL rewriting.  I'm writing an
> application that's available outside of Facebook too and I'm finding
> that on non canvas pages my canvas path still is being added to all
> my generated URLs.  In addition, with my stylesheet the basename had
> been substituted too.  The svn logs suggested that possibly work on
> the URL rewrite might not be complete, is that the right assumption?
>
> Anyway, I hope this is the best way to let you know these sorts of
> things.  All is pretty quiet on the bug tracker and here on the
> mailing list so I'm guessing some of you are communicating directly.
>
> My ruby skills are still pretty amateurish so doubt I'll be able to
> contribute any code but if this sort info is of help then maybe I'll
> be able to help with some testing.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jon
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk

--
Mike Mangino
http://www.elevatedrails.com


From jon at professionalnerd.com  Fri Nov  9 17:00:46 2007
From: jon at professionalnerd.com (Jon Gilbraith)
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 22:00:46 +0000
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Helpers and URL Rewriting
In-Reply-To: <0DEB4CF0-EB7D-429C-B98A-89E5770884C2@elevatedrails.com>
References: <BBE60E0C-DC04-48B2-9F47-857C06C399BF@professionalnerd.com>
	<0DEB4CF0-EB7D-429C-B98A-89E5770884C2@elevatedrails.com>
Message-ID: <1B3CAACC-70D9-411D-BD98-0E40BBE67ED2@professionalnerd.com>

Hey Mike,

Currently I define a custom mime type for fbml then have two sets of  
views and use respond_to in the controller to separate the logic.  So  
the last piece of my puzzle is to deal with the routing.  What I've  
done so far is to write a method which I wrap my *_path calls with to  
modify the url before it's sent to link_to, redirect_to, etc.

So, what I thought might be appropriate would be to check  
request_is_for_a_facebook_canvas? and if true modify the route  
appropriately in url_for, but if not then to leave it as it is.  I  
imagine though that this wouldn't work with iframe apps so I'm not so  
sure what's best.

Unfortunately I've not been able to find too much material on writing  
apps that exist inside as well as outside of facebook so I'm still  
trying to work out what I should be dealing with myself and what's  
expected to be performed by a plugin.

What do you reckon?

Jon

On 9 Nov 2007, at 20:49, Mike Mangino wrote:

> Oops. At least part of that was my fault. I broke the helper and  
> layout loading. I'll get that fixed and checked in shortly.
>
> Is it a problem to have the canvas path added to your non-facebook  
> URLs?
>
> How would you determine which links should have the canvas path  
> added and which should not?
>
> Mike
>
> On Nov 9, 2007, at 12:58 PM, Jon Gilbraith wrote:
>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> I'm part way through a project using, I think rev 73 of Facebooker,
>> and was getting along pretty well.  I've since tried the latest rev
>> (86) and have run into a few problems.
>>
>> First one was with the helpers in that for some reason now none of
>> them are available so I've had to use helper :application, etc in my
>> controller.
>>
>> Second one, which unfortunately means I think I'll have to switch
>> back to the older revision is with the URL rewriting.  I'm writing an
>> application that's available outside of Facebook too and I'm finding
>> that on non canvas pages my canvas path still is being added to all
>> my generated URLs.  In addition, with my stylesheet the basename had
>> been substituted too.  The svn logs suggested that possibly work on
>> the URL rewrite might not be complete, is that the right assumption?
>>
>> Anyway, I hope this is the best way to let you know these sorts of
>> things.  All is pretty quiet on the bug tracker and here on the
>> mailing list so I'm guessing some of you are communicating directly.
>>
>> My ruby skills are still pretty amateurish so doubt I'll be able to
>> contribute any code but if this sort info is of help then maybe I'll
>> be able to help with some testing.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jon
>> _______________________________________________
>> Facebooker-talk mailing list
>> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
> --
> Mike Mangino
> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>
>
> !DSPAM:4734c80c136991557044017!
>
>


From jon at professionalnerd.com  Sat Nov 10 12:10:59 2007
From: jon at professionalnerd.com (Jon Gilbraith)
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:10:59 +0000
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker Rdoc
Message-ID: <88B93424-CEC4-40BD-86AE-AD80E415704C@professionalnerd.com>

Hey folks,

I've stuck a copy of the latest rdoc online, along with a few other  
useful bits of information and links.  I'll update it any time I see  
any new commits.

http://facebooker.professionalnerd.com/

Cheers,

Jon
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From shanev at gmail.com  Sun Nov 18 04:12:57 2007
From: shanev at gmail.com (Shane Vitarana)
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 03:12:57 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Pseudo resource routes
Message-ID: <4ab757a40711180112g64feece4x22985a94a8549059@mail.gmail.com>

I added a route mapper called facebook_resources.  This allows you to
create pseudo-resource routes.  Since everything is a POST in
Facebook, you can't identify routes using HTTP verbs.  Each route is
prefixed with its action, except for index.

Example:

map.facebook_resources :profiles

Will give you the following named routes:

new_profile POST /profiles/new
profiles POST /profiles/index
show_profile POST /profiles/:id/show
create_profile POST /profiles/create
edit_profile POST /profiles/:id/edit
update_profile POST /profiles/:id/update
destroy_profile POST /profiles/:id/destroy

This is still very basic.  No nested routes or singular resources yet.

Shane

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From shanev at gmail.com  Wed Nov 21 03:26:13 2007
From: shanev at gmail.com (Shane Vitarana)
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:26:13 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Upgrade to latest trunk if you're getting
	"undefined method `degree='"
Message-ID: <4ab757a40711210026l35dcac6ak94b42df65925430d@mail.gmail.com>

Facebook added the 'degree' field to education info.  This breaks
user.populate because the 'degree' field doesn't exist in the
education history model.

On a side note, if a method calls a dangerous method (ending with !),
shouldn't it be classified as dangerous too?

Shane

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From shanev at gmail.com  Thu Nov 29 20:26:36 2007
From: shanev at gmail.com (Shane Vitarana)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:26:36 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Tests not passing
Message-ID: <4ab757a40711291726s31910ea8y1cfb23532fe8d562@mail.gmail.com>

There is a catch-all rescue at the bottom of rails_integration_test
that stops the tests from running if any of the require statements
fail.  In my case, require File.dirname(__FILE__)+'/../init' fails and
none of the tests get run.  When I comment out that line, there are a
couple of failures relating to redirection.

Shane

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From shanev at gmail.com  Thu Nov 29 20:38:43 2007
From: shanev at gmail.com (Shane Vitarana)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:38:43 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Rails test helpers
Message-ID: <4ab757a40711291738q3f9776a7m830b2f27ae8a5b64@mail.gmail.com>

Hey guys-

I started a module for Rails test helpers.  The first one is
assert_fb_redirect.  This is like Rails' assert_redirect, but works
for the fb:redirect FBML tag.

Any ideas for more? I was thinking about a version of assert_select
that works with Facebook.  assert_select is based on CSS selectors,
which won't work with Facebook since the use of colons (:) in search
queries conflicts with colons in FBML tags.  We need something for
view testing.  Maybe an XPath based helper? What is everyone using for
view testing right now?

Shane

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