[Facebooker-talk] New publishing API

[Mike Mangino]

Wow, that was really buggy. What Rails version are you using? I'll try  
to commit fixes today.

Mike

On Jul 15, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Christopher Redinger wrote:

> And then I had to rename the migration class to
> CreateFacebookTemplates. It was CreateFacebookTemplateRegistries, but
> the filename was create_facebook_templates.
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:16 PM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> Same thing happened to me, btw.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Christopher Redinger <redinger at gmail.com 
>> >
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> FYI, I couldn't get the migration to generate. I went into
>>> publisher_generator.rb and commented out the unless (and end) line
>>> because it wasn't getting in there, even though I didn't have the
>>> migration already. Then it worked.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Mike Mangino
>>> <mmangino at elevatedrails.com> wrote:
>>>> I've added support for the new message templates. Check out the
>>>> documentation (http://facebooker.rubyforge.org/ and
>>>> http://facebooker.rubyforge.org/classes/Facebooker/Rails/Publisher.html
>>>> in
>>>> particular)
>>>>
>>>> If you've already created a publisher, you will need to re-run the
>>>> script/generate command to create a new migration. By default,
>>>> Facebooker
>>>> will now keep track of your template ids. To send a message using  
>>>> the
>>>> new
>>>> API, you'll need to create two methods. The first returns the  
>>>> templates.
>>>> For
>>>> example:
>>>>
>>>> class MyPublisher < Facebooker::Rails::Publisher
>>>>  def publish_action_template
>>>>    one_line_story_template "{*actor*} did stuff with {*friend*}"
>>>>    one_line_story_template "{*actor*} did stuff"
>>>>    short_story_template "{*actor*} has a title {*friend*}",
>>>> render(:partial=>"short_body")
>>>>    short_story_template "{*actor*} has a title",
>>>> render(:partial=>"short_body")
>>>>    full_story_template "{*actor*} has a title {*friend*}",
>>>> render(:partial=>"full_body")
>>>>  end
>>>>
>>>> The name of the method needs to end in _template.
>>>>
>>>> To register this template, you can  call
>>>>
>>>> MyPublisher.register_publish_action
>>>>
>>>> or, to register all templates in a publisher, you can call
>>>>
>>>> MyPublisher.register_all_templates
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Facebooker will store the template id and the template name in the
>>>> facebook_templates table.
>>>>
>>>> To send a message from a stored template, you'll need to create  
>>>> another
>>>> method that registers the data:
>>>>
>>>> def publish_action(f)
>>>>   from f
>>>>   data :friend=>"Mike"
>>>> end
>>>>
>>>> Then, you can call
>>>> MyPublisher.deliver_publish_action
>>>>
>>>> Facebooker will look up the template id automatically.
>>>>
>>>> Let me know if you have any issues with this.
>>>>
>>>> Mike
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>>>> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>
>
>
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