[Facebooker-talk] Running multiple FB apps off the same Rails app

[Toby Hede]

In my case, the FB credentials are in the database ... so the YML was
not an option - but it's arguably cleaner than my ENV hackin.



On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 1:41 AM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:
> We actually just added support for Bebo that should also support multiple
> rails apps in one instance.  I tested it once in my dev environment.
>
> Please try this in you facebooker.yml where foo is some unique prefix for
> the config:
>
> foo_api_key: f688cbe01c465d71e4f9bed26722309a
> foo_secret_key: SECRETKEY
> foo_canvas_page_name: app_canvas_page_name
> foo_adapter: FacebookAdapter
> foo_callback_url: http://mycoolfacebookapp.com
>
> I think it requires the same callback_url as the other app, but I don't
> remember if it can be different. If this gets a lot of use was can make it a
> little cleaner.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Toby Hede <tobyhede at info-architects.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> I am doing this by using a filter and spoofing the ENV variables. Not
>> pretty but it works.
>>
>> before_filter :authenticate
>>
>> def authenticate
>>    @app = find_application
>>
>>      ENV['FACEBOOK_API_KEY'] =  @app.api_key
>>      ENV['FACEBOOK_SECRET_KEY'] = @app.secret_key
>>
>>      ensure_application_is_installed_by_facebook_user
>> end
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Robert Matei <rmatei at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I'm trying to do a few templatized apps. I want them to all run off the
>> > same
>> > Rails app, which would fetch the right 'theme' from a database based on
>> > params[:fb_sig_api_key]. The themes store the config details of each
>> > app, in
>> > addition to specific prompts and so on.
>> >
>> > Presumably this would need a modified Facebooker, which can work with
>> > multiple api key / secret key combos instead of a single facebooker.yml
>> > file.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure where to start though, and I figured I'd check with people
>> > who
>> > know Facebooker better than I do. Any suggestions?
>> >
>> > Robert
>> >
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