[Facebooker-talk] Avoiding remote API calls inside controller actions

[Joe Van Dyk]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Joe Van Dyk <joe at pinkpucker.net> wrote:
> So, it's bad to do network API calls to FB inside a controller action, amirite?
>
> If I want to display the user's first name though, how do I do that
> without making a FB API call?  How about the user's friends that have
> the application installed?
>
> I only have 2 mongrels running and I hate to have them both tied up
> with Facebook API calls.

I'm noticing that when a user first visits my FB app (canvas),
facebook.auth.getSession is being called.   Is that necessary?

Is it possible (or advisable) to raise an exception anytime the
facebook api is called from inside a controller action?

Joe