[Facebooker-talk] integrating facebooker into an existing application

[Mike Mangino]

Jay, can you tell us what your callback url is set to?

In general, we expect the callback url to be the same hostname as the  
rest of your application.

Mike

On Apr 22, 2008, at 7:32 PM, Jay McGaffigan wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> So I am trying to understand how to integrate a facebook application  
> into my
> web application.  Mike has given me some good pointers.  But I am at  
> a point
> where I am rummaging through the code and have stumbled upon a  
> problem that
> I am not sure how to resolve.
>
> The issue might be related to this fix:
> http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/facebooker-talk/2008-March/000471.html
>
> but I'm not sure.
>
> So let me describe my scenario.
>
> I have an existing web application.  I want to integrate a Facebook
> application into it in such a way that after a demo of this we may  
> want to
> pull the facebook app stuff into it's own web application.
>
> So to start I have added the plugin.  And discovered the following
> dependency in the tests:
> Rails_integration_tests have a 'require "ruby-debug"' statement in  
> it.  I
> didn't have this gem installed and when I removed the require  
> statement and
> the tests all passed except for one (which causes a warning in Ruby  
> and an
> error in JRuby).  A question I have here is ... is it worth pointing  
> out the
> dependency on ruby-debug to this list? (I believe it's a native gem)
>
> Next I setup my application to use the proper session store.
> A quick jump to my app's homepage and all still looks well.
>
> Next I setup my facebooker.yml file.  And the problems start for my  
> web
> app's non-facebook pages.  When I goto my homepage.  The style  
> information
> fails to load.  This is due to the fact that all my resources are  
> being
> referenced with a URL that looks like my callback_url.
> (http://ip/jay).
>
> If I undo the fix referenced in the URL above, my problem goes away,  
> but I
> don't want to undo that fix without understanding the implications.   
> Being
> new to using facebooker, does anyone have a couple of paragraphs  
> they can
> share on how the routing works for facebooker?
>
> Any help would be super appreciated!
>
> Jay
>
> PS:  I'll be at railsconf also and would be interested in joining  
> for a beer
> if you'll have me :)
>
>
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