From sbwoodside at yahoo.com  Sun Mar  2 01:50:10 2008
From: sbwoodside at yahoo.com (S. Woodside)
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 01:50:10 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] multiple controllers
Message-ID: <5478C61F-7155-45E8-BA40-45FFFE1B0A16@yahoo.com>

Hi bit of a newbie question here.

What is the "right" way to do have multiple controllers in my  
facebooker app. Should I create a "namespace" for my models? e.g.  
controllers/facebook/index.fbml.erb would become controllers/facebook/ 
section1/index.fbml.erb  etc.

If I do that, what other changes do I need to make, e.g. to my routes?

And then, let's say I'm doing an fb:action or a link_to, what changes  
do I need to make there?

--simon

--
http://simonwoodside.com


From mniessner at elevatedrails.com  Sun Mar  2 02:08:43 2008
From: mniessner at elevatedrails.com (Michael Niessner)
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 01:08:43 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] multiple controllers
In-Reply-To: <5478C61F-7155-45E8-BA40-45FFFE1B0A16@yahoo.com>
References: <5478C61F-7155-45E8-BA40-45FFFE1B0A16@yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <E8A07792-4ED8-45E0-AC1C-2DA10BAACE4F@gmail.com>

It depends. I typically just have controllers/some_controller.rb  
controllers/some_other_controller.rb. Some people desire to sandbox  
facebook functionality to a specific portion of their site. In that  
case you would probably want to use a namespace for your controllers.

Your routes without namespaces would look like:
map.resources :some_controller
map.resources :some_other_controller

Your routes with namespaces would look like:
map.namespace(:your_namespace) do |your_namespace|
   your_namespace.resources :some_controller
   your_namespace.resources :some_other_controller
end

I haven't had a need to create a namespace for any of my models.

Michael Niessner

On Mar 2, 2008, at 12:50 AM, S. Woodside wrote:

> Hi bit of a newbie question here.
>
> What is the "right" way to do have multiple controllers in my
> facebooker app. Should I create a "namespace" for my models? e.g.
> controllers/facebook/index.fbml.erb would become controllers/facebook/
> section1/index.fbml.erb  etc.
>
> If I do that, what other changes do I need to make, e.g. to my routes?
>
> And then, let's say I'm doing an fb:action or a link_to, what changes
> do I need to make there?
>
> --simon
>
> --
> http://simonwoodside.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk


From sbwoodside at yahoo.com  Sun Mar  2 02:25:22 2008
From: sbwoodside at yahoo.com (S. Woodside)
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 02:25:22 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk]  RESTful Delete
Message-ID: <F9A382D9-B2C4-4EBE-9BC9-28E3048385A9@yahoo.com>

Facebook seems to always use POST for canvas page calls, but I did  
see this:
   http://www.henriquez.net/2007/09/so-you-start-new-ruby-on-rails.html

--simon

> Does it work if you change it to a form with a button and use :html =>
> { :method => :delete } ?
>
> Shane
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Brian Howenstein <brian at  
> hwrd.com> wrote:
> > I sent this question out about a week ago, but never got a  
> response...
> >
> >  I have so far been unable to do a RESTful delete using Facebooker.
> >
> >  In my config/routes.rb, I have:
> >
> >  map.resources :runs
> >
> >  I am trying to do the delete using:
> >
> >  <%= link_to "Delete", run, :method => :delete %>
> >
> >  However, instead of doing the 'delete', it calls the 'show' action.
> >
> >  Has anyone been successful doing a RESTful delete using Facebooker?
> >
> >  Thanks,
> >  Brian

--
http://simonwoodside.com


From sbwoodside at yahoo.com  Sun Mar  2 17:38:16 2008
From: sbwoodside at yahoo.com (S. Woodside)
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 17:38:16 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] belongs_to and facebooker
Message-ID: <19587EDA-7289-4A1B-889B-539EEA179CF8@yahoo.com>

It would be cool if I could use belongs_to to link my own models to  
facebook's models (e.g. if I could have a table "cool_people"  
belongs_to a facebook group/gid). Generally speaking it would be nice  
if facebooker's models worked more like traditional ActiveRecord  
objects, for example event.members instead of calling  
session.event_members(eid).

--simon

--
http://simonwoodside.com


From mmangino at elevatedrails.com  Sun Mar  2 18:09:52 2008
From: mmangino at elevatedrails.com (Mike Mangino)
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 17:09:52 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] belongs_to and facebooker
In-Reply-To: <19587EDA-7289-4A1B-889B-539EEA179CF8@yahoo.com>
References: <19587EDA-7289-4A1B-889B-539EEA179CF8@yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <D11A7DB1-C24D-416D-989B-CC422FBA586C@elevatedrails.com>

Some of the objects already work this way. For instance, there is an  
albums method on User which deals with loading the right albums.  
Unfortunately, Facebook's terms of service prohibit storing most of  
the API information, so storing information in a table isn't allowed.

Mike

On Mar 2, 2008, at 4:38 PM, S. Woodside wrote:

> It would be cool if I could use belongs_to to link my own models to
> facebook's models (e.g. if I could have a table "cool_people"
> belongs_to a facebook group/gid). Generally speaking it would be nice
> if facebooker's models worked more like traditional ActiveRecord
> objects, for example event.members instead of calling
> session.event_members(eid).
>
> --simon
>
> --
> http://simonwoodside.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk

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



From sbwoodside at yahoo.com  Sun Mar  2 22:01:04 2008
From: sbwoodside at yahoo.com (S. Woodside)
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 22:01:04 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] belongs_to and facebooker
In-Reply-To: <D11A7DB1-C24D-416D-989B-CC422FBA586C@elevatedrails.com>
References: <19587EDA-7289-4A1B-889B-539EEA179CF8@yahoo.com>
	<D11A7DB1-C24D-416D-989B-CC422FBA586C@elevatedrails.com>
Message-ID: <D2CB916B-C45E-4436-8DDC-DF78953D9CDA@yahoo.com>

I realize it's still early days! I'm thinking about a direction I  
think it would be good to go in in general with Facebooker.

So right now I might do something like this:

   @event = @fb_sess.events( :eid => my_id ).first
   # Array of Attendance:
   @invited_users = @ fb_sess.event_members( @event.eid )
   <%= fb_name @invited_users.first.uid %>

Whereas a more "rails" way to do it would be:

   # Automatically accesses my session in a class method:
   @event = Facebooker::Event( :eid => my_id ).first
   # here Event has_many members (Users):
   @invited_users = @event.members
   # fb_name understands User object:
   <%= fb_name @invited_users.first %>

It's farther away from the facebook PHP model but more railsy and I  
think easier to code with.

--simon

PS For storing local information, I don't get why that matters here,  
you can cache for up to 24 hours and if the cache is expired, just  
transparently reload the data from facebook.

PPS I guess that I'm not talking about actually mirroring FB's data  
here into local models, but "faking it out" somehow to make it seem  
like its more active recordsy

--
http://simonwoodside.com


On Mar 2, 2008, at 6:09 PM, Mike Mangino wrote:

> Some of the objects already work this way. For instance, there is  
> an albums method on User which deals with loading the right albums.  
> Unfortunately, Facebook's terms of service prohibit storing most of  
> the API information, so storing information in a table isn't allowed.
>
> Mike
>
> On Mar 2, 2008, at 4:38 PM, S. Woodside wrote:
>
>> It would be cool if I could use belongs_to to link my own models to
>> facebook's models (e.g. if I could have a table "cool_people"
>> belongs_to a facebook group/gid). Generally speaking it would be nice
>> if facebooker's models worked more like traditional ActiveRecord
>> objects, for example event.members instead of calling
>> session.event_members(eid).
>>
>> --simon
>>
>> --
>> http://simonwoodside.com
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Facebooker-talk mailing list
>> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
> --
> Mike Mangino
> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>
>

From mmangino at elevatedrails.com  Sun Mar  2 23:06:29 2008
From: mmangino at elevatedrails.com (Mike Mangino)
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 22:06:29 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] belongs_to and facebooker
In-Reply-To: <D2CB916B-C45E-4436-8DDC-DF78953D9CDA@yahoo.com>
References: <19587EDA-7289-4A1B-889B-539EEA179CF8@yahoo.com>
	<D11A7DB1-C24D-416D-989B-CC422FBA586C@elevatedrails.com>
	<D2CB916B-C45E-4436-8DDC-DF78953D9CDA@yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <5246B574-C217-40D2-8903-39F5F13DFA49@elevatedrails.com>

We would love patches to do that. You can take a look at how user  
implement albums.

Mike

On Mar 2, 2008, at 9:01 PM, S. Woodside wrote:

> I realize it's still early days! I'm thinking about a direction I  
> think it would be good to go in in general with Facebooker.
>
> So right now I might do something like this:
>
>  @event = @fb_sess.events( :eid => my_id ).first
>  # Array of Attendance:
>  @invited_users = @ fb_sess.event_members( @event.eid )
>  <%= fb_name @invited_users.first.uid %>
>
> Whereas a more "rails" way to do it would be:
>
>  # Automatically accesses my session in a class method:
>  @event = Facebooker::Event( :eid => my_id ).first
>  # here Event has_many members (Users):
>  @invited_users = @event.members
>  # fb_name understands User object:
>  <%= fb_name @invited_users.first %>
>
> It's farther away from the facebook PHP model but more railsy and I  
> think easier to code with.
>
> --simon
>
> PS For storing local information, I don't get why that matters here,  
> you can cache for up to 24 hours and if the cache is expired, just  
> transparently reload the data from facebook.
>
> PPS I guess that I'm not talking about actually mirroring FB's data  
> here into local models, but "faking it out" somehow to make it seem  
> like its more active recordsy
>
> --
> http://simonwoodside.com
>
>
> On Mar 2, 2008, at 6:09 PM, Mike Mangino wrote:
>
>> Some of the objects already work this way. For instance, there is  
>> an albums method on User which deals with loading the right albums.  
>> Unfortunately, Facebook's terms of service prohibit storing most of  
>> the API information, so storing information in a table isn't allowed.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On Mar 2, 2008, at 4:38 PM, S. Woodside wrote:
>>
>>> It would be cool if I could use belongs_to to link my own models to
>>> facebook's models (e.g. if I could have a table "cool_people"
>>> belongs_to a facebook group/gid). Generally speaking it would be  
>>> nice
>>> if facebooker's models worked more like traditional ActiveRecord
>>> objects, for example event.members instead of calling
>>> session.event_members(eid).
>>>
>>> --simon
>>>
>>> --
>>> http://simonwoodside.com
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Facebooker-talk mailing list
>>> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>>
>> --
>> Mike Mangino
>> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>>
>>

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




From jnylund at yahoo.com  Mon Mar  3 19:14:08 2008
From: jnylund at yahoo.com (Joel Nylund)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 19:14:08 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] I think I know why plugin installer is not
	getting http_multipart_post.rb
Message-ID: <70D07605-73D8-43EB-A725-688B743CAB13@yahoo.com>

looking through the rails source, I think it skips the download of the  
file if it starts with http.

(links method of RecursiveHTTPFetcher which is used by plugin installer)

def links(base_url, contents)
     links = []
     contents.scan(/href\s*=\s*\"*[^\">]*/i) do |link|
       link = link.sub(/href="/i, "")
       next if link =~ /^http/i || link =~ /^\./
       links << File.join(base_url, link)
     end
     links
   end

Since the one file thats not getting downloaded is net/ 
http_multipart_post.rb

Can one of the committers rename the file to not start with http?

Once its done I can test to be sure, but im pretty sure this is the  
problem.

It will save lots of folks headaches, I know the gem is preferred, but  
if there is going to be a plugin, it should work, and its been broken  
for a long while now.

thanks
Joel

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From digidigo at gmail.com  Mon Mar  3 19:28:50 2008
From: digidigo at gmail.com (David Clements)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:28:50 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] I think I know why plugin installer is not
	getting http_multipart_post.rb
In-Reply-To: <70D07605-73D8-43EB-A725-688B743CAB13@yahoo.com>
References: <70D07605-73D8-43EB-A725-688B743CAB13@yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <ea9161c50803031628q2744727dh7cef790fa836f6dd@mail.gmail.com>

Hey Joel,

I am not seeing this problem.  I am on rails 2.02 and just did a fresh
plugin install and it came down fine.

Screen cast, longer than I wanted it to be, you can skip ahead about
2/3 of the way through:

http://screencast.com/t/sak9LJRUy



On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Joel Nylund <jnylund at yahoo.com> wrote:
> looking through the rails source, I think it skips the download of the file
> if it starts with http.
>
> (links method of RecursiveHTTPFetcher which is used by plugin installer)
>
>
> def links(base_url, contents)
>     links = []
>     contents.scan(/href\s*=\s*\"*[^\">]*/i) do |link|
>       link = link.sub(/href="/i, "")
>       next if link =~ /^http/i || link =~ /^\./
>       links << File.join(base_url, link)
>     end
>     links
>   end
>
> Since the one file thats not getting downloaded is
> net/http_multipart_post.rb
>
> Can one of the committers rename the file to not start with http?
>
> Once its done I can test to be sure, but im pretty sure this is the problem.
>
> It will save lots of folks headaches, I know the gem is preferred, but if
> there is going to be a plugin, it should work, and its been broken for a
> long while now.
>
> thanks
> Joel
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>  Facebooker-talk mailing list
>  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
>

From jnylund at yahoo.com  Mon Mar  3 19:31:30 2008
From: jnylund at yahoo.com (Joel Nylund)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 16:31:30 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] I think I know why plugin installer is not
	getting http_multipart_post.rb
Message-ID: <900817.43879.qm@web50609.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

Must be a rails 1.2.x problem

Joel

On Mar 3, 2008, at 7:28 PM, "David Clements" <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Joel,

I am not seeing this problem.  I am on rails 2.02 and just did a fresh
plugin install and it came down fine.

Screen cast, longer than I wanted it to be, you can skip ahead about
2/3 of the way through:

http://screencast.com/t/sak9LJRUy



On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:14 PM, Joel Nylund <jnylund at yahoo.com> wrote:
looking through the rails source, I think it skips the download of the file
if it starts with http.

(links method of RecursiveHTTPFetcher which is used by plugin installer)


def links(base_url, contents)
   links = []
   contents.scan(/href\s*=\s*\"*[^\">]*/i) do |link|
     link = link.sub(/href="/i, "")
     next if link =~ /^http/i || link =~ /^\./
     links << File.join(base_url, link)
   end
   links
 end

Since the one file thats not getting downloaded is
net/http_multipart_post.rb

Can one of the committers rename the file to not start with http?

Once its done I can test to be sure, but im pretty sure this is the problem.

It will save lots of folks headaches, I know the gem is preferred, but if
there is going to be a plugin, it should work, and its been broken for a
long while now.

thanks
Joel


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




From michael.tedesco at peermeta.com  Mon Mar  3 19:39:30 2008
From: michael.tedesco at peermeta.com (Michael Tedesco)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 19:39:30 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Can someone tell me if this is possible
Message-ID: <E3C498E2100B814D887B20AE20BD0794A82CD8F0@mse19be2.mse19.exchange.ms>

I'd like to make a call to the following URL passing my API_KEY.
Two questions

http://www.facebook.com/code_gen.php/v=1.0&api_key=MY_API_KEY

I'd like to access my stored api_key

1)      Can I do it from the following start point
         t_session = Facebooker::Session.create

        then somehow access the key


2)      I'm also trying to do the following from my Controller

 def temp_session

    t_session = Facebooker::Session.create

    t_session.secure_with!(self.facebook_session_key, self.facebook_uid, 0)

    return t_session

  end



    but I'm getting the following error

        undefined method `facebook_session_key' for #<FacebookerController:0x4aa6870>


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From joel at i5labs.com  Mon Mar  3 22:17:01 2008
From: joel at i5labs.com (Joel Watson)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 19:17:01 -0800
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Can someone tell me if this is possible
In-Reply-To: <E3C498E2100B814D887B20AE20BD0794A82CD8F0@mse19be2.mse19.exchange.ms>
References: <E3C498E2100B814D887B20AE20BD0794A82CD8F0@mse19be2.mse19.exchange.ms>
Message-ID: <D0625AB3-0D16-4BCC-8415-8529E702CDCA@i5labs.com>

For number one, you want to do something like this:

t_session = Facebooker::Session.create(Facebooker::Session.api_key,  
Facebooker::Session.secret_key)

Though I haven't looked into the underlying code directly, I'm  
guessing Facebooker::Session.api_key and secret_key are both loaded  
from your facebooker.yml file at load time.

For number two. If that method is in your controller and  
facebook_session_key is an attribute of your user model, then the  
problem is self.facebook_session_key is attemping to call  
facebook_session_key on the controller, not your user object. I would  
move that method to your user model and then call it in your controller.

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
   def restore_facebook_session
     return @facebook_session unless @facebook_session.nil?
     @facebook_session =  
Facebooker::Session.create(Facebooker::Session.api_key,  
Facebooker::Session.secret_key)
     @facebook_session.secure_with!(facebook_session_key,  
facebook_uid, 0)
     @facebook_session
   end
end

where facebook_session_key and facebook_uid are attributes of your User.

class FacebookController < ApplicationController
   def some_action
     @user = User.find(params[:id])
     @facebook_session = @user.restore_facebook_session

     # do stuff with your facebook session
   end
end

-Joel

On Mar 3, 2008, at 4:39 PM, Michael Tedesco wrote:

> I?d like to make a call to the following URL passing my API_KEY.
> Two questions
>
> http://www.facebook.com/code_gen.php/v=1.0&api_key=MY_API_KEY
>
> I?d like to access my stored api_key
> 1)      Can I do it from the following start point
>          t_session = Facebooker::Session.create
>
>         then somehow access the key
>
> 2)      I?m also trying to do the following from my Controller
>  def temp_session
>     t_session = Facebooker::Session.create
>     t_session.secure_with!(self.facebook_session_key,  
> self.facebook_uid, 0)
>     return t_session
>   end
>
>     but I?m getting the following error
>         undefined method `facebook_session_key' for  
> #<FacebookerController:0x4aa6870>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk

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From michael.tedesco at peermeta.com  Tue Mar  4 12:07:25 2008
From: michael.tedesco at peermeta.com (Michael Tedesco)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:07:25 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Can someone tell me if this is possible
In-Reply-To: <D0625AB3-0D16-4BCC-8415-8529E702CDCA@i5labs.com>
References: <E3C498E2100B814D887B20AE20BD0794A82CD8F0@mse19be2.mse19.exchange.ms>
	<D0625AB3-0D16-4BCC-8415-8529E702CDCA@i5labs.com>
Message-ID: <E3C498E2100B814D887B20AE20BD0794A82CDA6D@mse19be2.mse19.exchange.ms>

Thanks Joel:

   Does facebooker have a similar function to the following - to return facebook generated session key

   facebook.auth.getSession ?


n  Thanks, Mike

From: Joel Watson [mailto:joel at i5labs.com]
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 10:17 PM
To: Michael Tedesco
Cc: facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: [Facebooker-talk] Can someone tell me if this is possible

For number one, you want to do something like this:

t_session = Facebooker::Session.create(Facebooker::Session.api_key, Facebooker::Session.secret_key)

Though I haven't looked into the underlying code directly, I'm guessing Facebooker::Session.api_key and secret_key are both loaded from your facebooker.yml file at load time.

For number two. If that method is in your controller and facebook_session_key is an attribute of your user model, then the problem is self.facebook_session_key is attemping to call facebook_session_key on the controller, not your user object. I would move that method to your user model and then call it in your controller.

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  def restore_facebook_session
    return @facebook_session unless @facebook_session.nil?
    @facebook_session = Facebooker::Session.create(Facebooker::Session.api_key, Facebooker::Session.secret_key)
    @facebook_session.secure_with!(facebook_session_key, facebook_uid, 0)
    @facebook_session
  end
end

where facebook_session_key and facebook_uid are attributes of your User.

class FacebookController < ApplicationController
  def some_action
    @user = User.find(params[:id])
    @facebook_session = @user.restore_facebook_session

    # do stuff with your facebook session
  end
end

-Joel

On Mar 3, 2008, at 4:39 PM, Michael Tedesco wrote:


I'd like to make a call to the following URL passing my API_KEY.
Two questions

http://www.facebook.com/code_gen.php/v=1.0&api_key=MY_API_KEY

I'd like to access my stored api_key
1)      Can I do it from the following start point
         t_session = Facebooker::Session.create

        then somehow access the key

2)      I'm also trying to do the following from my Controller
 def temp_session
    t_session = Facebooker::Session.create
    t_session.secure_with!(self.facebook_session_key, self.facebook_uid, 0)
    return t_session
  end


    but I'm getting the following error

        undefined method `facebook_session_key' for #<FacebookerController:0x4aa6870>

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Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org<mailto:Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org>
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From jnylund at yahoo.com  Tue Mar  4 12:42:09 2008
From: jnylund at yahoo.com (Joel Nylund)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:42:09 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] facebook_url_rewriting.rb
In-Reply-To: <4ab757a40802271940s2357d545sf1ab0fa80c470d59@mail.gmail.com>
References: <43A02353-93C4-434D-AC9A-AB85ECABE669@i5labs.com>
	<4ab757a40802271650o30ba51d7rc13b3b4db2b189df@mail.gmail.com>
	<55DEA0C9-B908-4F81-B8F2-032774BA35C5@yahoo.com>
	<4ab757a40802271940s2357d545sf1ab0fa80c470d59@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <0DEC9772-165D-4B67-99B6-5C8AB727459C@yahoo.com>

Hey, guys, I have been struggling to figure out a reasonable way to  
test this. Can someone help me with the strategy?

I dont see any test cases for rewrite_url_with_facebooker today, so I  
don't have any guidelines to go on.

What I think I need to test is a working version of url_for that  
allows me to set all the basics up. The integration tests seem to have  
url_for stubbed out.

What we basically want to test is:

If the user is in a canvas and if they have  
FACEBOOKER_SANDBOX_NAMESPACE defined, that we strip off the namespace  
in the urls that are generated.

So in my application for example I have:

FACEBOOKER_SANDBOX_NAMESPACE: /face
FACEBOOKER_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT: gottakeepup
path is: /gottakeepup/face/destroy_task?task_id=3935
after rewrite path is: /gottakeepup/destroy_task?task_id=3935

Works like a charm in a real application, but how can I produce this  
scenario in the test framework?

thanks
Joel


On Feb 27, 2008, at 10:40 PM, Shane Vitarana wrote:

> Hey the other Joel :) Yup, the var name change, and tests have to be
> added that covers the change.   Then submit it to Rubyforge.
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Joel Nylund <jnylund at yahoo.com>  
> wrote:
>> Ive been using Shawns patch for a while and it works great, what  
>> can I
>> do to help Shane? Just change the var name and submit to sourceforge?
>>
>> thanks
>> Joel Nylund (the other Joel)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 27, 2008, at 7:50 PM, Shane Vitarana wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Joel-
>>>
>>> I've been meaning to do it using Shawn's patch but didn't get around
>>> to it yet.  It's on my todo list, but if anyone else has a need  
>>> for it
>>> and does it, it'll be much appreciated.
>>>
>>> Shane
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Joel Watson <joel at i5labs.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi all!
>>>>
>>>> Just curious if that namespace support had been added as  
>>>> discussed in
>>>> a previous thread using this name. I've currently got my facebook
>>>> app's controllers inside a subfolder named "facebook" and my  
>>>> callback
>>>> url looks something like "http://app-domain.com/facebook/". Routes
>>>> are
>>>> set up appropriately to direct facebook/:action url's to the
>>>> appropriate controller. Unfortunately, my callback url is being
>>>> prepended to my javascript/stylesheet includes in the main (non-
>>>> facebook) part of the app giving me something like this for each
>>>> stylesheet/javascript include:
>>>>
>>>> ActionController::RoutingError (No route matches "/facebook//
>>>> stylesheets/groups.css" with {:canvas=>false, :method=>:get})
>>>>
>>>> It's entirely possible that I've just horribly misconfigured
>>>> something. If so, hopefully someone out there has some ideas. :-)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> -Joel
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Facebooker-talk mailing list
>>>> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>>>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> http://shanesbrain.net | http://crimsonjet.com | http://myfitbuddy.com
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Facebooker-talk mailing list
>>> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> http://shanesbrain.net | http://crimsonjet.com | http://myfitbuddy.com



From chris at cobaltedge.com  Tue Mar  4 14:12:51 2008
From: chris at cobaltedge.com (Christopher Bailey)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:12:51 -0800
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] How to build URL's in models/outside
	controller/view code?
Message-ID: <443c240c0803041112w75a47baei1cb97337f943e5e9@mail.gmail.com>

I'm building FBML in an asynchronous process, which is spawned from model
code.  There is no associated HTTP request, and thus no controller or view
facilities available.  I'm wondering if others do this, and what you
recommend for building URL's (e.g. with lack of link_to and url_for, etc.)?


-- 
Christopher Bailey
Cobalt Edge LLC
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From digidigo at gmail.com  Tue Mar  4 14:22:29 2008
From: digidigo at gmail.com (David Clements)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:22:29 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] How to build URL's in models/outside
	controller/view code?
In-Reply-To: <443c240c0803041112w75a47baei1cb97337f943e5e9@mail.gmail.com>
References: <443c240c0803041112w75a47baei1cb97337f943e5e9@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ea9161c50803041122t3b91e9fcgd8b71bd2ae7b71b0@mail.gmail.com>

The new Publisher Api supports this have you looked at that?  You have
access to all the view helpers and url_for.

Are you pushing profile fbml?  It supports that.

Dave


On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Christopher Bailey
<chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> I'm building FBML in an asynchronous process, which is spawned from model
> code.  There is no associated HTTP request, and thus no controller or view
> facilities available.  I'm wondering if others do this, and what you
> recommend for building URL's (e.g. with lack of link_to and url_for, etc.)?
>
> --
> Christopher Bailey
> Cobalt Edge LLC
> http://cobaltedge.com
> _______________________________________________
>  Facebooker-talk mailing list
>  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
>

From mniessner at elevatedrails.com  Tue Mar  4 14:43:49 2008
From: mniessner at elevatedrails.com (Michael Niessner)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 13:43:49 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] How to build URL's in models/outside
	controller/view code?
In-Reply-To: <ea9161c50803041122t3b91e9fcgd8b71bd2ae7b71b0@mail.gmail.com>
References: <443c240c0803041112w75a47baei1cb97337f943e5e9@mail.gmail.com>
	<ea9161c50803041122t3b91e9fcgd8b71bd2ae7b71b0@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <FCC22C88-27BB-4DC2-94B1-99205D96CAE9@gmail.com>

Like Dave said definitely check out the publisher api. If for some  
reason that isn't what you want, take a look at http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/UrlWriter.html 
  to see how to include url helpers in any class.

Michael Niessner

On Mar 4, 2008, at 1:22 PM, David Clements wrote:

> The new Publisher Api supports this have you looked at that?  You have
> access to all the view helpers and url_for.
>
> Are you pushing profile fbml?  It supports that.
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Christopher Bailey
> <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
>> I'm building FBML in an asynchronous process, which is spawned from  
>> model
>> code.  There is no associated HTTP request, and thus no controller  
>> or view
>> facilities available.  I'm wondering if others do this, and what you
>> recommend for building URL's (e.g. with lack of link_to and  
>> url_for, etc.)?
>>
>> --
>> Christopher Bailey
>> Cobalt Edge LLC
>> http://cobaltedge.com
>> _______________________________________________
>> Facebooker-talk mailing list
>> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>>
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk


From chris at cobaltedge.com  Tue Mar  4 15:45:05 2008
From: chris at cobaltedge.com (Christopher Bailey)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:45:05 -0800
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] How to build URL's in models/outside
	controller/view code?
In-Reply-To: <ea9161c50803041122t3b91e9fcgd8b71bd2ae7b71b0@mail.gmail.com>
References: <443c240c0803041112w75a47baei1cb97337f943e5e9@mail.gmail.com>
	<ea9161c50803041122t3b91e9fcgd8b71bd2ae7b71b0@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <443c240c0803041245k36eb54e0m44bf0bd3568980c5@mail.gmail.com>

Ah, thanks for reminding me about that!  Ok, I'm trying to use it now.  I've
built my class to publish a profile update for a user, as per Mike's message
(in his response to you putting up the tutorial).  But, when I call
FacebookPublisher.deliver_profile_update(user), I get see this:

NoMethodError (undefined method `send!' for #<Module:0x439da10>):
    .//vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/rails/publisher.rb:263:in
`inherited'
    .//app/models/facebook_publisher.rb:1


Any ideas before I dig in further?  I'm using the latest Facebooker (rev
200).

On 3/4/08, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The new Publisher Api supports this have you looked at that?  You have
> access to all the view helpers and url_for.
>
> Are you pushing profile fbml?  It supports that.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Christopher Bailey
> <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > I'm building FBML in an asynchronous process, which is spawned from
> model
> > code.  There is no associated HTTP request, and thus no controller or
> view
> > facilities available.  I'm wondering if others do this, and what you
> > recommend for building URL's (e.g. with lack of link_to and url_for,
> etc.)?
> >
> > --
> > Christopher Bailey
> > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > http://cobaltedge.com
>
> > _______________________________________________
> >  Facebooker-talk mailing list
> >  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> >  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> >
> >
>



-- 
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Cobalt Edge LLC
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From brad at bradhubbard.net  Tue Mar  4 16:30:22 2008
From: brad at bradhubbard.net (Brad Hubbard)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 13:30:22 -0800
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Profile Boxes
Message-ID: <7b18dc380803041330y7ae5ae0ejacb0960054c93b86@mail.gmail.com>

I'm authoring my first facebooker app and my first FB App - and trying to
wrap my head around it all. I've gotten everything to work in the
install/However, I'm not certain how to get the profile box to
display/update. Are there any good tutorials or explanations of how to get
Facebooker to update a users' profile box?

I tried using profile_fbml=("Here is a bit of test data") as part of the
successful install method in my controller, and have been consistently
getting errors.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
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From bjclark at scidept.com  Tue Mar  4 16:42:12 2008
From: bjclark at scidept.com (BJ Clark)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 14:42:12 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Profile Boxes
In-Reply-To: <7b18dc380803041330y7ae5ae0ejacb0960054c93b86@mail.gmail.com>
References: <7b18dc380803041330y7ae5ae0ejacb0960054c93b86@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <56088AD0-E037-4297-9DE0-70D558EE75C1@scidept.com>

Brad,
I highly recommend making yourself very familiar with http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Main_Page

You're probably getting errors because of malformed api calls. You can  
see what's required for each call on the wiki.

Good Luck,
-----
BJ Clark
the science department
bjclark at scidept.com
www.scidept.com


On Mar 4, 2008, at 2:30 PM, Brad Hubbard wrote:

> I'm authoring my first facebooker app and my first FB App - and  
> trying to wrap my head around it all. I've gotten everything to work  
> in the install/However, I'm not certain how to get the profile box  
> to display/update. Are there any good tutorials or explanations of  
> how to get Facebooker to update a users' profile box?
>
> I tried using profile_fbml=("Here is a bit of test data") as part of  
> the successful install method in my controller, and have been  
> consistently getting errors.
>
> Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk


From chris at cobaltedge.com  Tue Mar  4 16:45:53 2008
From: chris at cobaltedge.com (Christopher Bailey)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 13:45:53 -0800
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Profile Boxes
In-Reply-To: <7b18dc380803041330y7ae5ae0ejacb0960054c93b86@mail.gmail.com>
References: <7b18dc380803041330y7ae5ae0ejacb0960054c93b86@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <443c240c0803041345k7ee269f7u57136d3819fe3de7@mail.gmail.com>

Also, as I just learned, check out Facebooker's Publisher class to updating
profile, sending notifications, etc.

On 3/4/08, Brad Hubbard <brad at bradhubbard.net> wrote:
>
> I'm authoring my first facebooker app and my first FB App - and trying to
> wrap my head around it all. I've gotten everything to work in the
> install/However, I'm not certain how to get the profile box to
> display/update. Are there any good tutorials or explanations of how to get
> Facebooker to update a users' profile box?
>
> I tried using profile_fbml=("Here is a bit of test data") as part of the
> successful install method in my controller, and have been consistently
> getting errors.
>
> Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
>


-- 
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From chris at cobaltedge.com  Tue Mar  4 17:10:55 2008
From: chris at cobaltedge.com (Christopher Bailey)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 14:10:55 -0800
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] How to build URL's in models/outside
	controller/view code?
In-Reply-To: <443c240c0803041245k36eb54e0m44bf0bd3568980c5@mail.gmail.com>
References: <443c240c0803041112w75a47baei1cb97337f943e5e9@mail.gmail.com>
	<ea9161c50803041122t3b91e9fcgd8b71bd2ae7b71b0@mail.gmail.com>
	<443c240c0803041245k36eb54e0m44bf0bd3568980c5@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <443c240c0803041410l39c512e6ya818d61807300546@mail.gmail.com>

Well, it appears the fix for this was simply to change the call from "send!"
to be "send" instead.  My story gets sent that way.  Is send! a Rails 2
addition possibly?  I'm using Rails 1.2.3.

On 3/4/08, Christopher Bailey <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
>
> Ah, thanks for reminding me about that!  Ok, I'm trying to use it now.
>  I've built my class to publish a profile update for a user, as per Mike's
> message (in his response to you putting up the tutorial).  But, when I call
> FacebookPublisher.deliver_profile_update(user), I get see this:
>
> NoMethodError (undefined method `send!' for #<Module:0x439da10>):
>     .//vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/rails/publisher.rb:263:in
> `inherited'
>     .//app/models/facebook_publisher.rb:1
>
>
> Any ideas before I dig in further?  I'm using the latest Facebooker (rev
> 200).
>
> On 3/4/08, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The new Publisher Api supports this have you looked at that?  You have
> > access to all the view helpers and url_for.
> >
> > Are you pushing profile fbml?  It supports that.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Christopher Bailey
> > <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > > I'm building FBML in an asynchronous process, which is spawned from
> > model
> > > code.  There is no associated HTTP request, and thus no controller or
> > view
> > > facilities available.  I'm wondering if others do this, and what you
> > > recommend for building URL's (e.g. with lack of link_to and url_for,
> > etc.)?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Christopher Bailey
> > > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > > http://cobaltedge.com
> >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > >  Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > >  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > >  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Christopher Bailey
> Cobalt Edge LLC
> http://cobaltedge.com
>



-- 
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Cobalt Edge LLC
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From jnylund at yahoo.com  Tue Mar  4 17:19:39 2008
From: jnylund at yahoo.com (Joel Nylund)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 17:19:39 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Profile Boxes
In-Reply-To: <7b18dc380803041330y7ae5ae0ejacb0960054c93b86@mail.gmail.com>
References: <7b18dc380803041330y7ae5ae0ejacb0960054c93b86@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <38C6E3DB-0BC4-4917-9E6A-59FA3B7A6325@yahoo.com>

Brad, you have to pass fbml markup to that method

<% @userF.profile_fbml = '<fb:wide>Joel is a cool dude </fb:wide>' %>
or
<% @userF.profile_fbml = '<fb:narrow>Joel is a cool dude</fb:narrow>' %>

While were on this topic, are you guys putting settings/etc in the  
profile still? It seems to me since users can just remove the box but  
keep your app, its better to put settings inside your applications tab  
set, thats what im doing but I was wondering what others thought..

see my previous posting to debug api calls, or Davids approach in his  
tutorial (monkey patch)

Joel


On Mar 4, 2008, at 4:30 PM, Brad Hubbard wrote:

> I'm authoring my first facebooker app and my first FB App - and  
> trying to wrap my head around it all. I've gotten everything to work  
> in the install/However, I'm not certain how to get the profile box  
> to display/update. Are there any good tutorials or explanations of  
> how to get Facebooker to update a users' profile box?
>
> I tried using profile_fbml=("Here is a bit of test data") as part of  
> the successful install method in my controller, and have been  
> consistently getting errors.
>
> Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk



From geraldbauer2007 at gmail.com  Tue Mar  4 18:33:53 2008
From: geraldbauer2007 at gmail.com (Gerald Bauer)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 15:33:53 -0800
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker Q&A with David Clements -
	TravelersTable Facebooker Sighting
Message-ID: <7e7cb8940803041533s2e1491d6r6a901b34348c9dce@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

  I've published a mini Q&A with David Clements about Facebooker,
TravelersTable and the Facebooker Tutorial.

   Read more @ http://rfacebook.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/travelerstable

    Cheers.

-- 
Gerald Bauer - Internet Professional - http://geraldbauer.wordpress.com

From chris at cobaltedge.com  Tue Mar  4 19:26:20 2008
From: chris at cobaltedge.com (Christopher Bailey)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 16:26:20 -0800
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Template path issues for Publisher
Message-ID: <443c240c0803041626k397cbe96m6a6ffcd080fb3542@mail.gmail.com>

I'm now dialed in on using Publisher, big thanks to Mike and folks for
setting that up, it makes life much nicer!

I have had to make two very small tweaks to the code to make it work for me.
 This is possibly due to us being on Rails 1.2.3 (my next chunk of work will
be to get us to at least 1.2.6 and hopefully 2.x, but I need to finish the
Facebook app first :)  Anyway, I mentioned the first tweak in a previous
email, but will cover both here for completeness, and any comments/info
folks have:


1) In Publisher#inherited, it makes a call to send!, but send! is undefined
in my environment.  I simply changed this to call send (i.e. no exclamation
point), and it all appears to work fine.


2) In Publisher#initialize_template_class, when it instantiates the
ActionView::Base object, it passes in a template path that is an array
holding both the base views directory, as well as the specific controller
view subdirectory.  In our environment, this yielded a second specific view
directory name on the path when ActionView::Base#template_exists? went
looking for the partial.  For example, I'd see it looking for paths like:
    .../app/views/facebook_publisher/facebook_publisher/_profile.rhtml


I don't now if it's different in Rails 2, and/or if the intent is that both
those paths should be searched when looking for templates (and that array
aspect simply didn't work in Rails 1.2.3?) or what.  But, the fix was to
remove the specific subdirectory, and thus change that line of code to:


     returning ActionView::Base.new(template_root, assigns, self) do
|template|


I've marked up my code and will revisit this once I get our codebase moved
to Rails 2, but wanted to put this out there in case had further info, or in
case this might help someone else.

-- 
Christopher Bailey
Cobalt Edge LLC
http://cobaltedge.com
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From joel at i5labs.com  Tue Mar  4 19:46:49 2008
From: joel at i5labs.com (Joel Watson)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 16:46:49 -0800
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Can someone tell me if this is possible
In-Reply-To: <E3C498E2100B814D887B20AE20BD0794A82CDA6D@mse19be2.mse19.exchange.ms>
References: <E3C498E2100B814D887B20AE20BD0794A82CD8F0@mse19be2.mse19.exchange.ms>
	<D0625AB3-0D16-4BCC-8415-8529E702CDCA@i5labs.com>
	<E3C498E2100B814D887B20AE20BD0794A82CDA6D@mse19be2.mse19.exchange.ms>
Message-ID: <B8E90224-A821-4EE9-88C7-DC30E7D36910@i5labs.com>

The session key is accessible with "your_session.session_key". So, by  
default in your facebook controller with the requisite ensure filters,  
you will have a session accessible via facebook_session. So, you would  
get it like this:

class FacebookController < ApplicationController
   ensure_application_is_installed_by_facebook_user

   def some_action
     @user = User.new
     @user.facebook_session_key = facebook_session.session_key
     @user.facebook_uid = facebook_session.user.uid
     @user.save
   end
end

Is that what you were after?

-Joel

On Mar 4, 2008, at 9:07 AM, Michael Tedesco wrote:

> Thanks Joel:
>
>    Does facebooker have a similar function to the following - to  
> return facebook generated session key
>
>    facebook.auth.getSession ?
>
> n  Thanks, Mike

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From joel at i5labs.com  Tue Mar  4 19:54:54 2008
From: joel at i5labs.com (Joel Watson)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 16:54:54 -0800
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Profile Boxes
In-Reply-To: <38C6E3DB-0BC4-4917-9E6A-59FA3B7A6325@yahoo.com>
References: <7b18dc380803041330y7ae5ae0ejacb0960054c93b86@mail.gmail.com>
	<38C6E3DB-0BC4-4917-9E6A-59FA3B7A6325@yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <9F754269-98DC-48D6-AE5F-1B29BAECA49E@i5labs.com>

Probably worth mentioning that the example for the Publisher methods  
in the rdocs are not accurate. For example, the rdocs give this as an  
example to update the user profile:

def profile_update(user_to_update,user_with_session_to_use)
       from user_with_session_to_use
       to user_to_update
       profile render(:action=>"/users/ 
profile",:assigns=>{:user=>user_to_update})
end

However, you need something more like this:

def profile_update(user_to_update,user_with_session_to_user)
	send_as :profile
	from user_with_session_to_use
	recipients user_to_update
	profile render(:action=>"/users/ 
profile",:assigns=>{:user=>user_to_update})
end

Notice the lack of the send_as :profile in the rdoc example and "to"  
changing to "recipients". This is also the case with templatized  
actions. Just FYI.
-Joel

From chris at cobaltedge.com  Tue Mar  4 20:04:49 2008
From: chris at cobaltedge.com (Christopher Bailey)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 17:04:49 -0800
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Profile Boxes
In-Reply-To: <9F754269-98DC-48D6-AE5F-1B29BAECA49E@i5labs.com>
References: <7b18dc380803041330y7ae5ae0ejacb0960054c93b86@mail.gmail.com>
	<38C6E3DB-0BC4-4917-9E6A-59FA3B7A6325@yahoo.com>
	<9F754269-98DC-48D6-AE5F-1B29BAECA49E@i5labs.com>
Message-ID: <443c240c0803041704g63f15733ke8585fb7ee67eee3@mail.gmail.com>

And I've had problems using full actions, so am using partials instead
(which actually is more intuitive to me given that you aren't generating a
whole page, but just a snippet of FBML for use in a page, but whatever).
 Anyway, assuming for something like a profile that the user himself is who
is updating his profile (not sure it's "legal" to have one user update
another's profile :)  I have this:

  def profile_update(user)
    send_as :profile
    recipients user
    profile render(:partial => "profile", :assigns => { :user => user })
  end



On 3/4/08, Joel Watson <joel at i5labs.com> wrote:
>
> Probably worth mentioning that the example for the Publisher methods
> in the rdocs are not accurate. For example, the rdocs give this as an
> example to update the user profile:
>
> def profile_update(user_to_update,user_with_session_to_use)
>        from user_with_session_to_use
>        to user_to_update
>        profile render(:action=>"/users/
> profile",:assigns=>{:user=>user_to_update})
> end
>
> However, you need something more like this:
>
> def profile_update(user_to_update,user_with_session_to_user)
>         send_as :profile
>         from user_with_session_to_use
>         recipients user_to_update
>         profile render(:action=>"/users/
> profile",:assigns=>{:user=>user_to_update})
> end
>
> Notice the lack of the send_as :profile in the rdoc example and "to"
> changing to "recipients". This is also the case with templatized
> actions. Just FYI.
> -Joel
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>



-- 
Christopher Bailey
Cobalt Edge LLC
http://cobaltedge.com
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From chris at cobaltedge.com  Tue Mar  4 23:46:02 2008
From: chris at cobaltedge.com (Christopher Bailey)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 20:46:02 -0800
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] How to build URL's in models/outside
	controller/view code?
In-Reply-To: <443c240c0803041410l39c512e6ya818d61807300546@mail.gmail.com>
References: <443c240c0803041112w75a47baei1cb97337f943e5e9@mail.gmail.com>
	<ea9161c50803041122t3b91e9fcgd8b71bd2ae7b71b0@mail.gmail.com>
	<443c240c0803041245k36eb54e0m44bf0bd3568980c5@mail.gmail.com>
	<443c240c0803041410l39c512e6ya818d61807300546@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <443c240c0803042046ma1cbd02x10c6617a655afd24@mail.gmail.com>

Further followup...  So, the Publisher solution doesn't seem to actually
solve my need for URL generation.  link_to, url_for, image_tag, and so on
don't seem to work (I get various undefined method errors for methods they
use, etc.).  Is that expected, or?

On 3/4/08, Christopher Bailey <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
>
> Well, it appears the fix for this was simply to change the call from
> "send!" to be "send" instead.  My story gets sent that way.  Is send! a
> Rails 2 addition possibly?  I'm using Rails 1.2.3.
>
> On 3/4/08, Christopher Bailey <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ah, thanks for reminding me about that!  Ok, I'm trying to use it now.
> >  I've built my class to publish a profile update for a user, as per Mike's
> > message (in his response to you putting up the tutorial).  But, when I call
> > FacebookPublisher.deliver_profile_update(user), I get see this:
> >
> > NoMethodError (undefined method `send!' for #<Module:0x439da10>):
> >
> >  .//vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/rails/publisher.rb:263:in
> > `inherited'
> >     .//app/models/facebook_publisher.rb:1
> >
> >
> > Any ideas before I dig in further?  I'm using the latest Facebooker (rev
> > 200).
> >
> > On 3/4/08, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > The new Publisher Api supports this have you looked at that?  You have
> > > access to all the view helpers and url_for.
> > >
> > > Are you pushing profile fbml?  It supports that.
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Christopher Bailey
> > > <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > > > I'm building FBML in an asynchronous process, which is spawned from
> > > model
> > > > code.  There is no associated HTTP request, and thus no controller
> > > or view
> > > > facilities available.  I'm wondering if others do this, and what you
> > > > recommend for building URL's (e.g. with lack of link_to and url_for,
> > > etc.)?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Christopher Bailey
> > > > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > > > http://cobaltedge.com
> > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > >  Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > > >  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > > >  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Christopher Bailey
> > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > http://cobaltedge.com
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Christopher Bailey
> Cobalt Edge LLC
> http://cobaltedge.com
>



-- 
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Cobalt Edge LLC
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From michael.tedesco at peermeta.com  Wed Mar  5 14:00:29 2008
From: michael.tedesco at peermeta.com (Michael Tedesco)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:00:29 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Is there a Facebooker method call that I can do
	the following
Message-ID: <E3C498E2100B814D887B20AE20BD0794A82CDF7A@mse19be2.mse19.exchange.ms>

I'd like to be able to do the following without using ensure_authenticated_to_facebook
from
"http://www.facebook.com/login.php?api_key="+key+"&v=1.0"

Capture the Session key as well as the logged in user
I realize I have access to these values through facebook_session if I include that method,

But if I don't use it, can I do for instance
    Facebook.auth.getSession   (an equivalent facebooker command)
   Then
       Get user
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From jbulmer at spheric.ca  Wed Mar  5 14:59:37 2008
From: jbulmer at spheric.ca (Jaime Bulmer)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 15:59:37 -0400
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Fan Pages and Sessions
Message-ID: <79CFFF97-96A9-4AE9-B824-21FF41C6F009@spheric.ca>

I'm a ruby nuby trying to get through my first Facebooker  
application. I have two issues I need support with.

First is that another user of the application was accessing it find  
and now all of a sudden he gets:

Facebooker::Session::SessionExpired (Session key invalid or no longer  
valid):

How do we go about solving that?

Second is that facebook has an api call for pages.isFan   How can I  
do this call with Facebooker?

Please Help

From brad at bradhubbard.net  Wed Mar  5 16:10:59 2008
From: brad at bradhubbard.net (Brad Hubbard)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:10:59 -0800
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Profile Boxes
In-Reply-To: <443c240c0803041704g63f15733ke8585fb7ee67eee3@mail.gmail.com>
References: <7b18dc380803041330y7ae5ae0ejacb0960054c93b86@mail.gmail.com>
	<38C6E3DB-0BC4-4917-9E6A-59FA3B7A6325@yahoo.com>
	<9F754269-98DC-48D6-AE5F-1B29BAECA49E@i5labs.com>
	<443c240c0803041704g63f15733ke8585fb7ee67eee3@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <7b18dc380803051310g46b1344egf7e4e537a5d36e5@mail.gmail.com>

I tried moving over to the Facebooker publisher method.

My publisher controller is:
class PublisherController < Facebooker::Rails::Publisher
  def profile_update(user)
    send_as :profile
    recipients user
    profile render(:partial => "profile", :assigns => { :user => user })
  end
end

My partial is _profile.erb:
<fb:wide>Not working just yet. One can always hope!</fb:wide>

And my canvas controller calls:
PublisherController.deliver_profile_update(@fb_user)

I get (in my error logs):
Facebooker::Rails::Publisher::UnknownBodyType (Unknown type to publish):
I've got "send as :profile" in there - I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

-Brad

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Christopher Bailey <chris at cobaltedge.com>
wrote:

> And I've had problems using full actions, so am using partials instead
> (which actually is more intuitive to me given that you aren't generating a
> whole page, but just a snippet of FBML for use in a page, but whatever).
>  Anyway, assuming for something like a profile that the user himself is who
> is updating his profile (not sure it's "legal" to have one user update
> another's profile :)  I have this:
>
>   def profile_update(user)
>     send_as :profile
>     recipients user
>     profile render(:partial => "profile", :assigns => { :user => user })
>   end
>
>
>
> On 3/4/08, Joel Watson <joel at i5labs.com> wrote:
>
> > Probably worth mentioning that the example for the Publisher methods
> > in the rdocs are not accurate. For example, the rdocs give this as an
> > example to update the user profile:
> >
> > def profile_update(user_to_update,user_with_session_to_use)
> >        from user_with_session_to_use
> >        to user_to_update
> >        profile render(:action=>"/users/
> > profile",:assigns=>{:user=>user_to_update})
> > end
> >
> > However, you need something more like this:
> >
> > def profile_update(user_to_update,user_with_session_to_user)
> >         send_as :profile
> >         from user_with_session_to_use
> >         recipients user_to_update
> >         profile render(:action=>"/users/
> > profile",:assigns=>{:user=>user_to_update})
> > end
> >
> > Notice the lack of the send_as :profile in the rdoc example and "to"
> > changing to "recipients". This is also the case with templatized
> > actions. Just FYI.
> > -Joel
> > _______________________________________________
> > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Christopher Bailey
> Cobalt Edge LLC
> http://cobaltedge.com
>
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From joel at i5labs.com  Wed Mar  5 16:38:35 2008
From: joel at i5labs.com (Joel Watson)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:38:35 -0800
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Profile Boxes
In-Reply-To: <7b18dc380803051310g46b1344egf7e4e537a5d36e5@mail.gmail.com>
References: <7b18dc380803041330y7ae5ae0ejacb0960054c93b86@mail.gmail.com>
	<38C6E3DB-0BC4-4917-9E6A-59FA3B7A6325@yahoo.com>
	<9F754269-98DC-48D6-AE5F-1B29BAECA49E@i5labs.com>
	<443c240c0803041704g63f15733ke8585fb7ee67eee3@mail.gmail.com>
	<7b18dc380803051310g46b1344egf7e4e537a5d36e5@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <BB33722D-61DC-424D-8E2C-7799B2451D7E@i5labs.com>

What version of rails are you using? If you're using Rails 2.x and  
your partial is actually named "_profile.erb", then you might try  
renaming it to "_profile.html.erb". Not sure if that has anything to  
do with it, but worth a shot.

-Joel

On Mar 5, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Brad Hubbard wrote:

> I tried moving over to the Facebooker publisher method.
>
> My publisher controller is:
> class PublisherController < Facebooker::Rails::Publisher
>   def profile_update(user)
>     send_as :profile
>     recipients user
>     profile render(:partial => "profile", :assigns => { :user =>  
> user })
>   end
> end
>
> My partial is _profile.erb:
> <fb:wide>Not working just yet. One can always hope!</fb:wide>
>
> And my canvas controller calls:
> PublisherController.deliver_profile_update(@fb_user)
>
> I get (in my error logs):
> Facebooker::Rails::Publisher::UnknownBodyType (Unknown type to  
> publish):
> I've got "send as :profile" in there - I'm not sure what I'm doing  
> wrong.
>
> -Brad


From digidigo at gmail.com  Wed Mar  5 16:42:04 2008
From: digidigo at gmail.com (David Clements)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:42:04 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Is there a Facebooker method call that I can
	do the following
In-Reply-To: <E3C498E2100B814D887B20AE20BD0794A82CDF7A@mse19be2.mse19.exchange.ms>
References: <E3C498E2100B814D887B20AE20BD0794A82CDF7A@mse19be2.mse19.exchange.ms>
Message-ID: <ea9161c50803051342y3e66a4faieae978fca4693fd6@mail.gmail.com>

Hey Michael,

I am not sure if I am following you here.  That URL does not hit your
server at all.  That is handled by the facebook servers.

If facebook is hitting your server all  the data you are looking for
should be in the params hash though: params[:fb_sig_session_key]
params[:fb_sig_user]


Dave


On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Michael Tedesco
<michael.tedesco at peermeta.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> I'd like to be able to do the following without using
> ensure_authenticated_to_facebook
>
> from
>
> "http://www.facebook.com/login.php?api_key="+key+"&v=1.0"
>
>
>
> Capture the Session key as well as the logged in user
>
> I realize I have access to these values through facebook_session if I
> include that method,
>
>
>
> But if I don't use it, can I do for instance
>
>     Facebook.auth.getSession   (an equivalent facebooker command)
>
>    Then
>
>        Get user
> _______________________________________________
>  Facebooker-talk mailing list
>  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
>

From chris at cobaltedge.com  Wed Mar  5 20:12:43 2008
From: chris at cobaltedge.com (Christopher Bailey)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:12:43 -0800
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Setting :canvas => false for URL generation
	doesn't always work?
Message-ID: <443c240c0803051712x7606f6f1n24e7c2830e0c3452@mail.gmail.com>

I generate a lot of URL's in my Facebook related code that point to our main
site, not our FB app.  My understanding was that the way to do this was to
use ":canvas => false" as a parameter to url_for and link_to and so on.
 However, that doesn't seem to generate the proper URL's.  The URL's still
point to apps.facebook.com (because they don't have a host/are relative).
 Interestingly, if I use a named route, and pass :canvas=>false to it, then
it generates the proper URL (and if I leave canvas param off or set to true,
it sets it to apps.facebook.com, so it's definitely taking it into account).

I'm wondering if someone can comment on this more?  I have a fix, but I'm
not sure if it's actually a fix, or just solving the symptom or improper use
on my part, etc.  What I did to fix it was change
 Facebooker's UrlRewriter#link_to_canvas? (in facebook_url_rewriting.rb) to
look like this:


    def link_to_canvas?(params, options)
      option_override = options[:canvas]
      if option_override == false # important to check for false. nil should
use default behavior
        options[:only_path] = false
        RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.debug "set options[:only_path] to false"
        return false
      end
      option_override || @request.parameters["fb_sig_in_canvas"] == "1" ||
 @request.parameters[:fb_sig_in_canvas] == "1"
    end


The pertinent change is that if they sent canvas to false, I add the
"only_path" option and set it to false.


I'm also seeing a problem related to this with the Publisher class, but I'll
bring that up separately, as it's a different kind of issue.

-- 
Christopher Bailey
Cobalt Edge LLC
http://cobaltedge.com
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From mmangino at elevatedrails.com  Wed Mar  5 20:43:12 2008
From: mmangino at elevatedrails.com (Mike Mangino)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 19:43:12 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Setting :canvas => false for URL generation
	doesn't always work?
In-Reply-To: <443c240c0803051712x7606f6f1n24e7c2830e0c3452@mail.gmail.com>
References: <443c240c0803051712x7606f6f1n24e7c2830e0c3452@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <2AFDE28D-6B4E-4BE0-A6CA-8B0B624AEB26@elevatedrails.com>

This is a problem that comes because the developer (me) doesn't use  
url_for. I've used named routes only for more than a year now.

What version of rails are you using? That's probably the first thing  
we'll need to track this down. Also, any sample code would be helpful,  
especially if you can make it fail in a test.

Mike


On Mar 5, 2008, at 7:12 PM, Christopher Bailey wrote:

> I generate a lot of URL's in my Facebook related code that point to  
> our main site, not our FB app.  My understanding was that the way to  
> do this was to use ":canvas => false" as a parameter to url_for and  
> link_to and so on.  However, that doesn't seem to generate the  
> proper URL's.  The URL's still point to apps.facebook.com (because  
> they don't have a host/are relative).  Interestingly, if I use a  
> named route, and pass :canvas=>false to it, then it generates the  
> proper URL (and if I leave canvas param off or set to true, it sets  
> it to apps.facebook.com, so it's definitely taking it into account).
>
>
> I'm wondering if someone can comment on this more?  I have a fix,  
> but I'm not sure if it's actually a fix, or just solving the symptom  
> or improper use on my part, etc.  What I did to fix it was change   
> Facebooker's UrlRewriter#link_to_canvas? (in  
> facebook_url_rewriting.rb) to look like this:
>
>
>     def link_to_canvas?(params, options)
>       option_override = options[:canvas]
>       if option_override == false # important to check for false.  
> nil should use default behavior
>         options[:only_path] = false
>         RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.debug "set options[:only_path] to false"
>         return false
>       end
>       option_override || @request.parameters["fb_sig_in_canvas"] ==  
> "1" ||  @request.parameters[:fb_sig_in_canvas] == "1"
>     end
>
>
> The pertinent change is that if they sent canvas to false, I add the  
> "only_path" option and set it to false.
>
>
> I'm also seeing a problem related to this with the Publisher class,  
> but I'll bring that up separately, as it's a different kind of issue.
>
> -- 
> Christopher Bailey
> Cobalt Edge LLC
> http://cobaltedge.com
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk

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



From mniessner at elevatedrails.com  Wed Mar  5 21:08:04 2008
From: mniessner at elevatedrails.com (Michael Niessner)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 20:08:04 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Setting :canvas => false for URL generation
	doesn't always work?
In-Reply-To: <2AFDE28D-6B4E-4BE0-A6CA-8B0B624AEB26@elevatedrails.com>
References: <443c240c0803051712x7606f6f1n24e7c2830e0c3452@mail.gmail.com>
	<2AFDE28D-6B4E-4BE0-A6CA-8B0B624AEB26@elevatedrails.com>
Message-ID: <E199960C-ED23-4DD2-98B5-81B788BD8ADA@gmail.com>

:canvas => true/false will not work in any version of rails  
if :only_path => true. The rails docs state that by default url_for  
sets :only_path => true. So if you wanted url_for to give you a full  
url and not a path you would have to do url_for(blah, :only_path =>  
false). And if you wanted to use :canvas you'd have to do  
url_for(blah, :only_path => false, :canvas => true/false).

Since canvas only correctly when :only_path => false, it might make  
sense to check if :canvas is not nil and then set :only_path => false.  
Although, that has the side effect of having something_path(:canvas =>  
true/false) return a fully qualified url instead of a path.

If it is decided that have something_path(:canvas => true/false)  
return a url instead of path is better than having to explicitly  
set :only_path => false when using url_for with :canvas then the  
method should probably look more like the following, since you will  
want the host to be added both when 1) linking to a facebook url from  
a non facebook page and 2) linking to a non facebook url from a  
facebook page.

def link_to_canvas?(params, options)
      option_override = options[:canvas]
      options[:only_path] = false if !option_override.nil?
      if option_override == false # important to check for false. nil  
should use default behavior
        return false
      end
      option_override || @request.parameters["fb_sig_in_canvas"] ==   
"1" ||  @request.parameters[:fb_sig_in_canvas] == "1"
end

Michael Niessner

On Mar 5, 2008, at 7:43 PM, Mike Mangino wrote:

> This is a problem that comes because the developer (me) doesn't use
> url_for. I've used named routes only for more than a year now.
>
> What version of rails are you using? That's probably the first thing
> we'll need to track this down. Also, any sample code would be helpful,
> especially if you can make it fail in a test.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Mar 5, 2008, at 7:12 PM, Christopher Bailey wrote:
>
>> I generate a lot of URL's in my Facebook related code that point to
>> our main site, not our FB app.  My understanding was that the way to
>> do this was to use ":canvas => false" as a parameter to url_for and
>> link_to and so on.  However, that doesn't seem to generate the
>> proper URL's.  The URL's still point to apps.facebook.com (because
>> they don't have a host/are relative).  Interestingly, if I use a
>> named route, and pass :canvas=>false to it, then it generates the
>> proper URL (and if I leave canvas param off or set to true, it sets
>> it to apps.facebook.com, so it's definitely taking it into account).
>>
>>
>> I'm wondering if someone can comment on this more?  I have a fix,
>> but I'm not sure if it's actually a fix, or just solving the symptom
>> or improper use on my part, etc.  What I did to fix it was change
>> Facebooker's UrlRewriter#link_to_canvas? (in
>> facebook_url_rewriting.rb) to look like this:
>>
>>
>>    def link_to_canvas?(params, options)
>>      option_override = options[:canvas]
>>      if option_override == false # important to check for false.
>> nil should use default behavior
>>        options[:only_path] = false
>>        RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.debug "set options[:only_path] to false"
>>        return false
>>      end
>>      option_override || @request.parameters["fb_sig_in_canvas"] ==
>> "1" ||  @request.parameters[:fb_sig_in_canvas] == "1"
>>    end
>>
>>
>> The pertinent change is that if they sent canvas to false, I add the
>> "only_path" option and set it to false.
>>
>>
>> I'm also seeing a problem related to this with the Publisher class,
>> but I'll bring that up separately, as it's a different kind of issue.
>>
>> -- 
>> Christopher Bailey
>> Cobalt Edge LLC
>> http://cobaltedge.com
>> _______________________________________________
>> Facebooker-talk mailing list
>> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
> --
> Mike Mangino
> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk


From chris at cobaltedge.com  Wed Mar  5 21:21:04 2008
From: chris at cobaltedge.com (Christopher Bailey)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:21:04 -0800
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Setting :canvas => false for URL generation
	doesn't always work?
In-Reply-To: <2AFDE28D-6B4E-4BE0-A6CA-8B0B624AEB26@elevatedrails.com>
References: <443c240c0803051712x7606f6f1n24e7c2830e0c3452@mail.gmail.com>
	<2AFDE28D-6B4E-4BE0-A6CA-8B0B624AEB26@elevatedrails.com>
Message-ID: <443c240c0803051821v1b5d0e1fh1fdff3953b5e837@mail.gmail.com>

I figured that might be the case (devs only use named routes).  Named routes
are awesome, but simply not practical for our app (think thousands of
routes).  We are using Rails 1.2.3, and I will be moving up to Rails 2 when
I can, but that is not a small task, and I was hoping to get the Facebook
implementation done first (although the more I run into these things, the
more I start to think about spiking on the Rails update).

The behavior, at least as far as I can tell, actually makes sense.  If you
don't specify the only_path = false aspect, it defaults to true as per Rails
docs, so of course it's not going to put the full host in there, and thus a
relative path is going to resolve to apps.facebook.com.


I'll see if I can't put a simple test case together and submit that so you
have something.  I'm wondering what other folks have seen who may be using
url_for or link_to, if anyone is.  If folks are doing Facebook only apps,
then it's something they won't have come across, but for these apps that are
their own site, as well as have the Facebook portion integrated into that
same web app, it's an issue.


Thanks for discussing.

On 3/5/08, Mike Mangino <mmangino at elevatedrails.com> wrote:
>
> This is a problem that comes because the developer (me) doesn't use
> url_for. I've used named routes only for more than a year now.
>
> What version of rails are you using? That's probably the first thing
> we'll need to track this down. Also, any sample code would be helpful,
> especially if you can make it fail in a test.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> On Mar 5, 2008, at 7:12 PM, Christopher Bailey wrote:
>
> > I generate a lot of URL's in my Facebook related code that point to
> > our main site, not our FB app.  My understanding was that the way to
> > do this was to use ":canvas => false" as a parameter to url_for and
> > link_to and so on.  However, that doesn't seem to generate the
> > proper URL's.  The URL's still point to apps.facebook.com (because
> > they don't have a host/are relative).  Interestingly, if I use a
> > named route, and pass :canvas=>false to it, then it generates the
> > proper URL (and if I leave canvas param off or set to true, it sets
> > it to apps.facebook.com, so it's definitely taking it into account).
> >
> >
> > I'm wondering if someone can comment on this more?  I have a fix,
> > but I'm not sure if it's actually a fix, or just solving the symptom
> > or improper use on my part, etc.  What I did to fix it was change
> > Facebooker's UrlRewriter#link_to_canvas? (in
> > facebook_url_rewriting.rb) to look like this:
> >
> >
> >     def link_to_canvas?(params, options)
> >       option_override = options[:canvas]
> >       if option_override == false # important to check for false.
> > nil should use default behavior
> >         options[:only_path] = false
> >         RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.debug "set options[:only_path] to false"
> >         return false
> >       end
> >       option_override || @request.parameters["fb_sig_in_canvas"] ==
> > "1" ||  @request.parameters[:fb_sig_in_canvas] == "1"
> >     end
> >
> >
> > The pertinent change is that if they sent canvas to false, I add the
> > "only_path" option and set it to false.
> >
> >
> > I'm also seeing a problem related to this with the Publisher class,
> > but I'll bring that up separately, as it's a different kind of issue.
> >
> > --
> > Christopher Bailey
> > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > http://cobaltedge.com
>
> > _______________________________________________
> > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
>
> --
> Mike Mangino
> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>
>
>


-- 
Christopher Bailey
Cobalt Edge LLC
http://cobaltedge.com
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From chris at cobaltedge.com  Wed Mar  5 23:07:08 2008
From: chris at cobaltedge.com (Christopher Bailey)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 20:07:08 -0800
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Setting :canvas => false for URL generation
	doesn't always work?
In-Reply-To: <E199960C-ED23-4DD2-98B5-81B788BD8ADA@gmail.com>
References: <443c240c0803051712x7606f6f1n24e7c2830e0c3452@mail.gmail.com>
	<2AFDE28D-6B4E-4BE0-A6CA-8B0B624AEB26@elevatedrails.com>
	<E199960C-ED23-4DD2-98B5-81B788BD8ADA@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <443c240c0803052007m3b254b30id12bef0dbd789b42@mail.gmail.com>

Michael, good point - I will likely at some point want to link directly into
our FB app from the product as well (right now I only link to the FB app
itself, so fairly straight forward).  Thanks!

On 3/5/08, Michael Niessner <mniessner at elevatedrails.com> wrote:
>
> :canvas => true/false will not work in any version of rails
> if :only_path => true. The rails docs state that by default url_for
> sets :only_path => true. So if you wanted url_for to give you a full
> url and not a path you would have to do url_for(blah, :only_path =>
> false). And if you wanted to use :canvas you'd have to do
> url_for(blah, :only_path => false, :canvas => true/false).
>
> Since canvas only correctly when :only_path => false, it might make
> sense to check if :canvas is not nil and then set :only_path => false.
> Although, that has the side effect of having something_path(:canvas =>
> true/false) return a fully qualified url instead of a path.
>
> If it is decided that have something_path(:canvas => true/false)
> return a url instead of path is better than having to explicitly
> set :only_path => false when using url_for with :canvas then the
> method should probably look more like the following, since you will
> want the host to be added both when 1) linking to a facebook url from
> a non facebook page and 2) linking to a non facebook url from a
> facebook page.
>
>
> def link_to_canvas?(params, options)
>       option_override = options[:canvas]
>
>       options[:only_path] = false if !option_override.nil?
>
>       if option_override == false # important to check for false. nil
> should use default behavior
>
>         return false
>       end
>       option_override || @request.parameters["fb_sig_in_canvas"] ==
> "1" ||  @request.parameters[:fb_sig_in_canvas] == "1"
> end
>
>
> Michael Niessner
>
>
> On Mar 5, 2008, at 7:43 PM, Mike Mangino wrote:
>
> > This is a problem that comes because the developer (me) doesn't use
> > url_for. I've used named routes only for more than a year now.
> >
> > What version of rails are you using? That's probably the first thing
> > we'll need to track this down. Also, any sample code would be helpful,
> > especially if you can make it fail in a test.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > On Mar 5, 2008, at 7:12 PM, Christopher Bailey wrote:
> >
> >> I generate a lot of URL's in my Facebook related code that point to
> >> our main site, not our FB app.  My understanding was that the way to
> >> do this was to use ":canvas => false" as a parameter to url_for and
> >> link_to and so on.  However, that doesn't seem to generate the
> >> proper URL's.  The URL's still point to apps.facebook.com (because
> >> they don't have a host/are relative).  Interestingly, if I use a
> >> named route, and pass :canvas=>false to it, then it generates the
> >> proper URL (and if I leave canvas param off or set to true, it sets
> >> it to apps.facebook.com, so it's definitely taking it into account).
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm wondering if someone can comment on this more?  I have a fix,
> >> but I'm not sure if it's actually a fix, or just solving the symptom
> >> or improper use on my part, etc.  What I did to fix it was change
> >> Facebooker's UrlRewriter#link_to_canvas? (in
> >> facebook_url_rewriting.rb) to look like this:
> >>
> >>
> >>    def link_to_canvas?(params, options)
> >>      option_override = options[:canvas]
> >>      if option_override == false # important to check for false.
> >> nil should use default behavior
> >>        options[:only_path] = false
> >>        RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.debug "set options[:only_path] to false"
> >>        return false
> >>      end
> >>      option_override || @request.parameters["fb_sig_in_canvas"] ==
> >> "1" ||  @request.parameters[:fb_sig_in_canvas] == "1"
> >>    end
> >>
> >>
> >> The pertinent change is that if they sent canvas to false, I add the
> >> "only_path" option and set it to false.
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm also seeing a problem related to this with the Publisher class,
> >> but I'll bring that up separately, as it's a different kind of issue.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Christopher Bailey
> >> Cobalt Edge LLC
> >> http://cobaltedge.com
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> >> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> >
> > --
> > Mike Mangino
> > http://www.elevatedrails.com
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
>


-- 
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Cobalt Edge LLC
http://cobaltedge.com
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From mmangino at elevatedrails.com  Wed Mar  5 23:23:06 2008
From: mmangino at elevatedrails.com (Mike Mangino)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 22:23:06 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Setting :canvas => false for URL generation
	doesn't always work?
In-Reply-To: <443c240c0803052007m3b254b30id12bef0dbd789b42@mail.gmail.com>
References: <443c240c0803051712x7606f6f1n24e7c2830e0c3452@mail.gmail.com>
	<2AFDE28D-6B4E-4BE0-A6CA-8B0B624AEB26@elevatedrails.com>
	<E199960C-ED23-4DD2-98B5-81B788BD8ADA@gmail.com>
	<443c240c0803052007m3b254b30id12bef0dbd789b42@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <38C0968C-81AD-40F4-90D3-1540DB2DC2B4@elevatedrails.com>

If you find yourself always setting only_path to false, you can always  
set this as a default_url_option.

We should definitely add that to the docs.

Mike

On Mar 5, 2008, at 10:07 PM, Christopher Bailey wrote:

> Michael, good point - I will likely at some point want to link  
> directly into our FB app from the product as well (right now I only  
> link to the FB app itself, so fairly straight forward).  Thanks!
>
> On 3/5/08, Michael Niessner <mniessner at elevatedrails.com>  
> wrote: :canvas => true/false will not work in any version of rails
> if :only_path => true. The rails docs state that by default url_for
> sets :only_path => true. So if you wanted url_for to give you a full
> url and not a path you would have to do url_for(blah, :only_path =>
> false). And if you wanted to use :canvas you'd have to do
> url_for(blah, :only_path => false, :canvas => true/false).
>
> Since canvas only correctly when :only_path => false, it might make
> sense to check if :canvas is not nil and then set :only_path => false.
> Although, that has the side effect of having something_path(:canvas =>
> true/false) return a fully qualified url instead of a path.
>
> If it is decided that have something_path(:canvas => true/false)
> return a url instead of path is better than having to explicitly
> set :only_path => false when using url_for with :canvas then the
> method should probably look more like the following, since you will
> want the host to be added both when 1) linking to a facebook url from
> a non facebook page and 2) linking to a non facebook url from a
> facebook page.
>
>
> def link_to_canvas?(params, options)
>       option_override = options[:canvas]
>
>       options[:only_path] = false if !option_override.nil?
>
>       if option_override == false # important to check for false. nil
> should use default behavior
>
>         return false
>       end
>       option_override || @request.parameters["fb_sig_in_canvas"] ==
> "1" ||  @request.parameters[:fb_sig_in_canvas] == "1"
> end
>
>
> Michael Niessner
>
>
> On Mar 5, 2008, at 7:43 PM, Mike Mangino wrote:
>
> > This is a problem that comes because the developer (me) doesn't use
> > url_for. I've used named routes only for more than a year now.
> >
> > What version of rails are you using? That's probably the first thing
> > we'll need to track this down. Also, any sample code would be  
> helpful,
> > especially if you can make it fail in a test.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > On Mar 5, 2008, at 7:12 PM, Christopher Bailey wrote:
> >
> >> I generate a lot of URL's in my Facebook related code that point to
> >> our main site, not our FB app.  My understanding was that the way  
> to
> >> do this was to use ":canvas => false" as a parameter to url_for and
> >> link_to and so on.  However, that doesn't seem to generate the
> >> proper URL's.  The URL's still point to apps.facebook.com (because
> >> they don't have a host/are relative).  Interestingly, if I use a
> >> named route, and pass :canvas=>false to it, then it generates the
> >> proper URL (and if I leave canvas param off or set to true, it sets
> >> it to apps.facebook.com, so it's definitely taking it into  
> account).
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm wondering if someone can comment on this more?  I have a fix,
> >> but I'm not sure if it's actually a fix, or just solving the  
> symptom
> >> or improper use on my part, etc.  What I did to fix it was change
> >> Facebooker's UrlRewriter#link_to_canvas? (in
> >> facebook_url_rewriting.rb) to look like this:
> >>
> >>
> >>    def link_to_canvas?(params, options)
> >>      option_override = options[:canvas]
> >>      if option_override == false # important to check for false.
> >> nil should use default behavior
> >>        options[:only_path] = false
> >>        RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.debug "set options[:only_path] to  
> false"
> >>        return false
> >>      end
> >>      option_override || @request.parameters["fb_sig_in_canvas"] ==
> >> "1" ||  @request.parameters[:fb_sig_in_canvas] == "1"
> >>    end
> >>
> >>
> >> The pertinent change is that if they sent canvas to false, I add  
> the
> >> "only_path" option and set it to false.
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm also seeing a problem related to this with the Publisher class,
> >> but I'll bring that up separately, as it's a different kind of  
> issue.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Christopher Bailey
> >> Cobalt Edge LLC
> >> http://cobaltedge.com
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> >> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> >
> > --
> > Mike Mangino
> > http://www.elevatedrails.com
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Christopher Bailey
> Cobalt Edge LLC
> http://cobaltedge.com

--
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http://www.elevatedrails.com



From sbwoodside at yahoo.com  Wed Mar  5 23:38:48 2008
From: sbwoodside at yahoo.com (S. Woodside)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 23:38:48 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] patches on the rubyforge tracker
Message-ID: <6ADCC99E-E6AE-4FE3-AB42-95B9DD773C7F@yahoo.com>

Hi I just made some changes / additions for myself in facebooker and  
posted the patches on rubyforge, e.g.:

https://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php? 
func=detail&aid=18639&group_id=4187&atid=16130

(adds support for fb:dialog FBML tag)

Is this the right way to do it?

--simon

--
http://simonwoodside.com


From sbwoodside at yahoo.com  Wed Mar  5 23:49:50 2008
From: sbwoodside at yahoo.com (S. Woodside)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 23:49:50 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk]  Profile Boxes
Message-ID: <2E6C7374-744B-4C6F-A5C7-78EE9EA7A5A3@yahoo.com>

Well, if you do a search in the facebooker code you'll see that only  
gets generated from publisher.rb send_as, which doesn't  
accept :profile as one of the options. I don't think the publisher  
profile methods that are documented are actually implemented yet.

Perhaps you should try set_profile_fbml in Facebooker::User?

I don't actually see anything about profiles in any of the tutorials  
yet, and I haven't done it yet myself (I will be though).

--simon

> I tried moving over to the Facebooker publisher method.
>
> My publisher controller is:
> class PublisherController < Facebooker::Rails::Publisher
>   def profile_update(user)
>     send_as :profile
>     recipients user
>     profile render(:partial => "profile", :assigns => { :user =>  
> user })
>   end
> end
>
> My partial is _profile.erb:
> <fb:wide>Not working just yet. One can always hope!</fb:wide>
>
> And my canvas controller calls:
> PublisherController.deliver_profile_update(@fb_user)
>
> I get (in my error logs):
> Facebooker::Rails::Publisher::UnknownBodyType (Unknown type to  
> publish):
> I've got "send as :profile" in there - I'm not sure what I'm doing  
> wrong.



--
http://simonwoodside.com




--
http://simonwoodside.com


From chris at cobaltedge.com  Thu Mar  6 00:21:10 2008
From: chris at cobaltedge.com (Christopher Bailey)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:21:10 -0800
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] facebook_url_rewriter not used in Publisher?
Message-ID: <443c240c0803052121o712f5734j4e3ef283065a1f50@mail.gmail.com>

As per my last email, I'm generating links to our app outside of Facebook.
 Sorry for the onslaught of emails on this.  I do link generation in
Publisher based code as well.  What I'm finding is that the Facebooker
UrlRewriter doesn't get used in Publisher.  This makes sense if we assume
that Publisher can be used outside of an HTTP request, and things like the
UrlRewriter use the HTTP request.  Yet, link_to, and url_for and such are
there (probably sucked in via pulling in various other helpers and such).
 So, I wanted to find out the intent there.  Link creation seems like
something many folks would want to do when publishing into to a profile or
to the feeds, etc.  Maybe it's just not working for me, or I'm off on use or
something?

I should note that I've tried both with using things like link_to or
url_for, as well as using named routes, and also from within my Publisher
class' code, as well as the view template.

-- 
Christopher Bailey
Cobalt Edge LLC
http://cobaltedge.com
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From chris at cobaltedge.com  Thu Mar  6 00:23:09 2008
From: chris at cobaltedge.com (Christopher Bailey)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:23:09 -0800
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Profile Boxes
In-Reply-To: <2E6C7374-744B-4C6F-A5C7-78EE9EA7A5A3@yahoo.com>
References: <2E6C7374-744B-4C6F-A5C7-78EE9EA7A5A3@yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <443c240c0803052123h1b609655w48e9e7786aad4d73@mail.gmail.com>

Actually, send_as does accept :profile, see the threads in the last day or
two, but the below code should work as long as you are on the latest
Facebooker code.  Is your Facebooker code the latest?

On 3/5/08, S. Woodside <sbwoodside at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Well, if you do a search in the facebooker code you'll see that only
> gets generated from publisher.rb send_as, which doesn't
> accept :profile as one of the options. I don't think the publisher
> profile methods that are documented are actually implemented yet.
>
> Perhaps you should try set_profile_fbml in Facebooker::User?
>
> I don't actually see anything about profiles in any of the tutorials
> yet, and I haven't done it yet myself (I will be though).
>
> --simon
>
> > I tried moving over to the Facebooker publisher method.
> >
> > My publisher controller is:
> > class PublisherController < Facebooker::Rails::Publisher
> >   def profile_update(user)
> >     send_as :profile
> >     recipients user
> >     profile render(:partial => "profile", :assigns => { :user =>
> > user })
> >   end
> > end
> >
> > My partial is _profile.erb:
> > <fb:wide>Not working just yet. One can always hope!</fb:wide>
> >
> > And my canvas controller calls:
> > PublisherController.deliver_profile_update(@fb_user)
> >
> > I get (in my error logs):
> > Facebooker::Rails::Publisher::UnknownBodyType (Unknown type to
> > publish):
> > I've got "send as :profile" in there - I'm not sure what I'm doing
> > wrong.
>
>
>
> --
> http://simonwoodside.com
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> http://simonwoodside.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>



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From sbwoodside at yahoo.com  Thu Mar  6 01:49:50 2008
From: sbwoodside at yahoo.com (S. Woodside)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 01:49:50 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Profile Boxes
In-Reply-To: <443c240c0803052123h1b609655w48e9e7786aad4d73@mail.gmail.com>
References: <2E6C7374-744B-4C6F-A5C7-78EE9EA7A5A3@yahoo.com>
	<443c240c0803052123h1b609655w48e9e7786aad4d73@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <A7531473-5517-4D15-BA45-87CD62EE48FC@yahoo.com>

Damn, I thought that ./script/plugins update would automatically go  
out to facebooker's SVN and pull the latest, but I guess it doesn't.  
I switched to having vendor/plugins/facebooker being pulled directly  
via my own svn commands, and now I see that I was indeed out of date.  
The suck! Now I've got to redo my patches as well, bummer.

--simon

--
http://simonwoodside.com


On Mar 6, 2008, at 12:23 AM, Christopher Bailey wrote:

> Actually, send_as does accept :profile, see the threads in the last  
> day or two, but the below code should work as long as you are on  
> the latest Facebooker code.  Is your Facebooker code the latest?
>
> On 3/5/08, S. Woodside <sbwoodside at yahoo.com> wrote: Well, if you  
> do a search in the facebooker code you'll see that only
> gets generated from publisher.rb send_as, which doesn't
> accept :profile as one of the options. I don't think the publisher
> profile methods that are documented are actually implemented yet.
>
> Perhaps you should try set_profile_fbml in Facebooker::User?
>
> I don't actually see anything about profiles in any of the tutorials
> yet, and I haven't done it yet myself (I will be though).
>
> --simon
>
> > I tried moving over to the Facebooker publisher method.
> >
> > My publisher controller is:
> > class PublisherController < Facebooker::Rails::Publisher
> >   def profile_update(user)
> >     send_as :profile
> >     recipients user
> >     profile render(:partial => "profile", :assigns => { :user =>
> > user })
> >   end
> > end
> >
> > My partial is _profile.erb:
> > <fb:wide>Not working just yet. One can always hope!</fb:wide>
> >
> > And my canvas controller calls:
> > PublisherController.deliver_profile_update(@fb_user)
> >
> > I get (in my error logs):
> > Facebooker::Rails::Publisher::UnknownBodyType (Unknown type to
> > publish):
> > I've got "send as :profile" in there - I'm not sure what I'm doing
> > wrong.
>
>
>
> --
> http://simonwoodside.com
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> http://simonwoodside.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
>
>
> -- 
> Christopher Bailey
> Cobalt Edge LLC
> http://cobaltedge.com

From jbresnik at gmail.com  Thu Mar  6 05:05:41 2008
From: jbresnik at gmail.com (John Bresnik)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 02:05:41 -0800
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Getting at the FB response XML in Facebooker
Message-ID: <3b8cec990803060205g829cd8t4247ce36159c7ab9@mail.gmail.com>

I'm working with Matt [rfacebook] on a 'Migration to Facebooker' tag
that essentially sets the stage [with backward compatibility] for a
low-risk transition to Facebooker but had a quick question - doesn't
look like it possible to get at the raw XML from Session/Service/etc -
is that a correct or perhaps I missed something? We don't intend to
recreate the Facepricot object or anything but would like to provide
the raw XML for those apps that have had to use the XML directly [in
certain cases].. Just curious.

Thanks in advance..

From shanev at gmail.com  Thu Mar  6 05:30:40 2008
From: shanev at gmail.com (Shane Vitarana)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 02:30:40 -0800
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] patches on the rubyforge tracker
In-Reply-To: <6ADCC99E-E6AE-4FE3-AB42-95B9DD773C7F@yahoo.com>
References: <6ADCC99E-E6AE-4FE3-AB42-95B9DD773C7F@yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <4ab757a40803060230s2bef9d2fw6286fb1a5f5dd379@mail.gmail.com>

Simon-

You're close.  Just include tests, and put it in the "Patch" section
of the tracker instead of "Bugs."

Thanks!
Shane

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:38 PM, S. Woodside <sbwoodside at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi I just made some changes / additions for myself in facebooker and
>  posted the patches on rubyforge, e.g.:
>
>  https://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?
>  func=detail&aid=18639&group_id=4187&atid=16130
>
>  (adds support for fb:dialog FBML tag)
>
>  Is this the right way to do it?
>
>  --simon
>
>  --
>  http://simonwoodside.com
>
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From mmangino at elevatedrails.com  Thu Mar  6 08:55:59 2008
From: mmangino at elevatedrails.com (Mike Mangino)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 07:55:59 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] facebook_url_rewriter not used in Publisher?
In-Reply-To: <443c240c0803052121o712f5734j4e3ef283065a1f50@mail.gmail.com>
References: <443c240c0803052121o712f5734j4e3ef283065a1f50@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <40512F3B-5EDA-4FA5-90A8-AE5B47187FFF@elevatedrails.com>

This may be a rails 1.2 issue, as it works fine for me on rails 2.0.

Can you share some code and some additional detail about what happens  
when you try to run it?

Mike

On Mar 5, 2008, at 11:21 PM, Christopher Bailey wrote:

> As per my last email, I'm generating links to our app outside of  
> Facebook.  Sorry for the onslaught of emails on this.  I do link  
> generation in Publisher based code as well.  What I'm finding is  
> that the Facebooker UrlRewriter doesn't get used in Publisher.  This  
> makes sense if we assume that Publisher can be used outside of an  
> HTTP request, and things like the UrlRewriter use the HTTP request.   
> Yet, link_to, and url_for and such are there (probably sucked in via  
> pulling in various other helpers and such).  So, I wanted to find  
> out the intent there.  Link creation seems like something many folks  
> would want to do when publishing into to a profile or to the feeds,  
> etc.  Maybe it's just not working for me, or I'm off on use or  
> something?
>
>
> I should note that I've tried both with using things like link_to or  
> url_for, as well as using named routes, and also from within my  
> Publisher class' code, as well as the view template.
>
> -- 
> Christopher Bailey
> Cobalt Edge LLC
> http://cobaltedge.com
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk

--
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http://www.elevatedrails.com



From mmangino at elevatedrails.com  Thu Mar  6 08:57:39 2008
From: mmangino at elevatedrails.com (Mike Mangino)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 07:57:39 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Getting at the FB response XML in Facebooker
In-Reply-To: <3b8cec990803060205g829cd8t4247ce36159c7ab9@mail.gmail.com>
References: <3b8cec990803060205g829cd8t4247ce36159c7ab9@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <8210B179-5885-4F05-A161-6BAB792EBC85@elevatedrails.com>

The raw XML is received in parser.rb, you could definitely modify the  
Service#post method to store that aside somewhere. It probably won't  
be threadsafe, but it should work.

Mike

On Mar 6, 2008, at 4:05 AM, John Bresnik wrote:

> I'm working with Matt [rfacebook] on a 'Migration to Facebooker' tag
> that essentially sets the stage [with backward compatibility] for a
> low-risk transition to Facebooker but had a quick question - doesn't
> look like it possible to get at the raw XML from Session/Service/etc -
> is that a correct or perhaps I missed something? We don't intend to
> recreate the Facepricot object or anything but would like to provide
> the raw XML for those apps that have had to use the XML directly [in
> certain cases].. Just curious.
>
> Thanks in advance..
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk

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



From chris at cobaltedge.com  Thu Mar  6 12:23:06 2008
From: chris at cobaltedge.com (Christopher Bailey)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:23:06 -0800
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] facebook_url_rewriter not used in Publisher?
In-Reply-To: <40512F3B-5EDA-4FA5-90A8-AE5B47187FFF@elevatedrails.com>
References: <443c240c0803052121o712f5734j4e3ef283065a1f50@mail.gmail.com>
	<40512F3B-5EDA-4FA5-90A8-AE5B47187FFF@elevatedrails.com>
Message-ID: <443c240c0803060923p29a8929es8e152f9e94876660@mail.gmail.com>

Well, I suspected that :)  Last night I started a spike on getting up to
date on Rails.  This is involved for us since we currently use Appable
Plugins, and I need to convert to Desert in order to even move to Rails
1.2.4 or later, so I'm working on that.  I've got rake, db, and unit tests
working, now to get functionals and RSpec stuff going.  Heh, then I can
start updating Rails :)  Ok, nobody cares about that, but that's where I am.

As for the problem, it usually complains about missing
"default_url_options".  So, it actually finds link_to and url_for and such,
but within the guts of all that, default_url_options comes up missing.  I
haven't had a chance to dig into that yet.

On 3/6/08, Mike Mangino <mmangino at elevatedrails.com> wrote:
>
> This may be a rails 1.2 issue, as it works fine for me on rails 2.0.
>
> Can you share some code and some additional detail about what happens
> when you try to run it?
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Mar 5, 2008, at 11:21 PM, Christopher Bailey wrote:
>
> > As per my last email, I'm generating links to our app outside of
> > Facebook.  Sorry for the onslaught of emails on this.  I do link
> > generation in Publisher based code as well.  What I'm finding is
> > that the Facebooker UrlRewriter doesn't get used in Publisher.  This
> > makes sense if we assume that Publisher can be used outside of an
> > HTTP request, and things like the UrlRewriter use the HTTP request.
> > Yet, link_to, and url_for and such are there (probably sucked in via
> > pulling in various other helpers and such).  So, I wanted to find
> > out the intent there.  Link creation seems like something many folks
> > would want to do when publishing into to a profile or to the feeds,
> > etc.  Maybe it's just not working for me, or I'm off on use or
> > something?
> >
> >
> > I should note that I've tried both with using things like link_to or
> > url_for, as well as using named routes, and also from within my
> > Publisher class' code, as well as the view template.
> >
> > --
> > Christopher Bailey
> > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > http://cobaltedge.com
>
> > _______________________________________________
> > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
>
> --
> Mike Mangino
> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>
>
>


-- 
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Cobalt Edge LLC
http://cobaltedge.com
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From mmangino at elevatedrails.com  Thu Mar  6 12:27:44 2008
From: mmangino at elevatedrails.com (Mike Mangino)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 11:27:44 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] facebook_url_rewriter not used in Publisher?
In-Reply-To: <443c240c0803060923p29a8929es8e152f9e94876660@mail.gmail.com>
References: <443c240c0803052121o712f5734j4e3ef283065a1f50@mail.gmail.com>
	<40512F3B-5EDA-4FA5-90A8-AE5B47187FFF@elevatedrails.com>
	<443c240c0803060923p29a8929es8e152f9e94876660@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <D201D32F-76B4-48D2-922D-AD182D762607@elevatedrails.com>

You might try defining "default_url_options" in your publisher. It  
should take a single optional hash parameter and return a hash.

Mike

On Mar 6, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Christopher Bailey wrote:

> Well, I suspected that :)  Last night I started a spike on getting  
> up to date on Rails.  This is involved for us since we currently use  
> Appable Plugins, and I need to convert to Desert in order to even  
> move to Rails 1.2.4 or later, so I'm working on that.  I've got  
> rake, db, and unit tests working, now to get functionals and RSpec  
> stuff going.  Heh, then I can start updating Rails :)  Ok, nobody  
> cares about that, but that's where I am.
>
>
> As for the problem, it usually complains about missing  
> "default_url_options".  So, it actually finds link_to and url_for  
> and such, but within the guts of all that, default_url_options comes  
> up missing.  I haven't had a chance to dig into that yet.
>
> On 3/6/08, Mike Mangino <mmangino at elevatedrails.com> wrote: This may  
> be a rails 1.2 issue, as it works fine for me on rails 2.0.
>
> Can you share some code and some additional detail about what happens
> when you try to run it?
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Mar 5, 2008, at 11:21 PM, Christopher Bailey wrote:
>
> > As per my last email, I'm generating links to our app outside of
> > Facebook.  Sorry for the onslaught of emails on this.  I do link
> > generation in Publisher based code as well.  What I'm finding is
> > that the Facebooker UrlRewriter doesn't get used in Publisher.  This
> > makes sense if we assume that Publisher can be used outside of an
> > HTTP request, and things like the UrlRewriter use the HTTP request.
> > Yet, link_to, and url_for and such are there (probably sucked in via
> > pulling in various other helpers and such).  So, I wanted to find
> > out the intent there.  Link creation seems like something many folks
> > would want to do when publishing into to a profile or to the feeds,
> > etc.  Maybe it's just not working for me, or I'm off on use or
> > something?
> >
> >
> > I should note that I've tried both with using things like link_to or
> > url_for, as well as using named routes, and also from within my
> > Publisher class' code, as well as the view template.
> >
> > --
> > Christopher Bailey
> > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > http://cobaltedge.com
>
> > _______________________________________________
> > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
>
> --
> Mike Mangino
> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Christopher Bailey
> Cobalt Edge LLC
> http://cobaltedge.com

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



From uvmarko at gmail.com  Mon Mar 10 11:19:20 2008
From: uvmarko at gmail.com (yuval markovich)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:19:20 +0200
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Ajax and facebooker
Message-ID: <644d91f20803100819m4e8d2155x3cbf2354414ddc1f@mail.gmail.com>

Hi there,
I've been trying to establish a session call from an a ajax call to
retrieve a user's friends.
How do I set a session up from Ajax?
I have the session key ,secret ,api_key, user_id and all but how do I
get a session user?

Thanks,
Yuval

From jonathan.otto at gmail.com  Mon Mar 10 14:45:00 2008
From: jonathan.otto at gmail.com (Jonathan Otto)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:45:00 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] facebooker is rewriting URLs even off of facebook
	canvas
Message-ID: <b0e948460803101145s425367djc8dcd9c8b7050731@mail.gmail.com>

The URLs for CSS/JS files are being rewritten to the address specified
in the tunnel even when outside of the facebook canvas. Is anyone else
having this problem?

From chris at cobaltedge.com  Mon Mar 10 14:50:58 2008
From: chris at cobaltedge.com (Christopher Bailey)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:50:58 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] facebooker is rewriting URLs even off of
	facebook canvas
In-Reply-To: <b0e948460803101145s425367djc8dcd9c8b7050731@mail.gmail.com>
References: <b0e948460803101145s425367djc8dcd9c8b7050731@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <443c240c0803101150x17c896b8tac6d389963f43911@mail.gmail.com>

Yes, see my prior thread about it.  What version of Rails are you using?
 I'm having this issue with Rails 1.2.x, whereas Mike has said he doesn't
have the problem in Rails 2.x.  I assume you are putting ":canvas=>false" as
a parameter when generating the URL?

On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The URLs for CSS/JS files are being rewritten to the address specified
> in the tunnel even when outside of the facebook canvas. Is anyone else
> having this problem?
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>



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From jonathan.otto at gmail.com  Mon Mar 10 14:52:33 2008
From: jonathan.otto at gmail.com (Jonathan Otto)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:52:33 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] facebooker is rewriting URLs even off of
	facebook canvas
In-Reply-To: <443c240c0803101150x17c896b8tac6d389963f43911@mail.gmail.com>
References: <b0e948460803101145s425367djc8dcd9c8b7050731@mail.gmail.com>
	<443c240c0803101150x17c896b8tac6d389963f43911@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <b0e948460803101152g1ea792f0ief38bff51eb3c5a1@mail.gmail.com>

was not using canvs false. i am on 2.0.2

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Christopher Bailey
<chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> Yes, see my prior thread about it.  What version of Rails are you using?
> I'm having this issue with Rails 1.2.x, whereas Mike has said he doesn't
> have the problem in Rails 2.x.  I assume you are putting ":canvas=>false" as
> a parameter when generating the URL?
>
>
>
> On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > The URLs for CSS/JS files are being rewritten to the address specified
> > in the tunnel even when outside of the facebook canvas. Is anyone else
> > having this problem?
> > _______________________________________________
> > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Christopher Bailey
> Cobalt Edge LLC
> http://cobaltedge.com

From chris at cobaltedge.com  Mon Mar 10 15:15:42 2008
From: chris at cobaltedge.com (Christopher Bailey)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:15:42 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] facebooker is rewriting URLs even off of
	facebook canvas
In-Reply-To: <b0e948460803101152g1ea792f0ief38bff51eb3c5a1@mail.gmail.com>
References: <b0e948460803101145s425367djc8dcd9c8b7050731@mail.gmail.com>
	<443c240c0803101150x17c896b8tac6d389963f43911@mail.gmail.com>
	<b0e948460803101152g1ea792f0ief38bff51eb3c5a1@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <443c240c0803101215g4c512786xd81b7ebdd09c61b9@mail.gmail.com>

Ya, so, say you are doing url_for or link_to, or any named route, you want
to add ":canvas => false" to the list of options when generating the URL.
 That will tell it to make the URL point to your external site.  It works
the other way as well, to generate one into Facebook space, by setting
canvas to true.

On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> was not using canvs false. i am on 2.0.2
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Christopher Bailey
> <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > Yes, see my prior thread about it.  What version of Rails are you using?
> > I'm having this issue with Rails 1.2.x, whereas Mike has said he doesn't
> > have the problem in Rails 2.x.  I assume you are putting
> ":canvas=>false" as
> > a parameter when generating the URL?
> >
> >
> >
> > On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The URLs for CSS/JS files are being rewritten to the address specified
> > > in the tunnel even when outside of the facebook canvas. Is anyone else
> > > having this problem?
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Christopher Bailey
> > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > http://cobaltedge.com
>



-- 
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Cobalt Edge LLC
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From chris at cobaltedge.com  Mon Mar 10 15:59:52 2008
From: chris at cobaltedge.com (Christopher Bailey)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:59:52 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] facebooker is rewriting URLs even off of
	facebook canvas
In-Reply-To: <b0e948460803101236h5cc44488rc299779572973c05@mail.gmail.com>
References: <b0e948460803101145s425367djc8dcd9c8b7050731@mail.gmail.com>
	<443c240c0803101150x17c896b8tac6d389963f43911@mail.gmail.com>
	<b0e948460803101152g1ea792f0ief38bff51eb3c5a1@mail.gmail.com>
	<443c240c0803101215g4c512786xd81b7ebdd09c61b9@mail.gmail.com>
	<b0e948460803101236h5cc44488rc299779572973c05@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <443c240c0803101259y2ab078a1lf95bef2ce3717192@mail.gmail.com>

It can't - it has no way of knowing whether the URL should be for within
Facebook or outside.  Many folks have controllers and actions that work in
both, and it just depends on the format, or various other things.

It might be nice to have a mechanism to say: only routes for this controller
are within Facebook, assume everything else is outside, as say a
configuration option or some such, but that is not consistent across
people's app's.  It would work for my app, and I've considered doing that
exact kind of modification for our code, but haven't gotten around to it
yet.  If I do, I'll post my solution.

On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yeah, that seems kind of excessive no? I'm reading through all of the
> old discussion, trying to figure out why the facebook_url_rewriting.rb
> file is not working correctly. When not in the canvas it should
> automatically use the normal rails routes.
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Christopher Bailey
>
> <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > Ya, so, say you are doing url_for or link_to, or any named route, you
> want
> > to add ":canvas => false" to the list of options when generating the
> URL.
> > That will tell it to make the URL point to your external site.  It works
> the
> > other way as well, to generate one into Facebook space, by setting
> canvas to
> > true.
> >
> >
> > On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > was not using canvs false. i am on 2.0.2
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Christopher Bailey
> > > <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > > > Yes, see my prior thread about it.  What version of Rails are you
> using?
> > > > I'm having this issue with Rails 1.2.x, whereas Mike has said he
> doesn't
> > > > have the problem in Rails 2.x.  I assume you are putting
> > ":canvas=>false" as
> > > > a parameter when generating the URL?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > The URLs for CSS/JS files are being rewritten to the address
> specified
> > > > > in the tunnel even when outside of the facebook canvas. Is anyone
> else
> > > > > having this problem?
> > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > > > > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > > > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Christopher Bailey
> > > > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > > > http://cobaltedge.com
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> >  Christopher Bailey
> > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > http://cobaltedge.com
>



-- 
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Cobalt Edge LLC
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From jonathan.otto at gmail.com  Mon Mar 10 16:02:41 2008
From: jonathan.otto at gmail.com (Jonathan Otto)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:02:41 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] facebooker is rewriting URLs even off of
	facebook canvas
In-Reply-To: <443c240c0803101259y2ab078a1lf95bef2ce3717192@mail.gmail.com>
References: <b0e948460803101145s425367djc8dcd9c8b7050731@mail.gmail.com>
	<443c240c0803101150x17c896b8tac6d389963f43911@mail.gmail.com>
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Shouldn't be as simple as testing for one of the usual POST params
that comes from Facebook?

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Christopher Bailey
<chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> It can't - it has no way of knowing whether the URL should be for within
> Facebook or outside.  Many folks have controllers and actions that work in
> both, and it just depends on the format, or various other things.
>
>
> It might be nice to have a mechanism to say: only routes for this controller
> are within Facebook, assume everything else is outside, as say a
> configuration option or some such, but that is not consistent across
> people's app's.  It would work for my app, and I've considered doing that
> exact kind of modification for our code, but haven't gotten around to it
> yet.  If I do, I'll post my solution.
>
>
>
> On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yeah, that seems kind of excessive no? I'm reading through all of the
> > old discussion, trying to figure out why the facebook_url_rewriting.rb
> > file is not working correctly. When not in the canvas it should
> > automatically use the normal rails routes.
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Christopher Bailey
> >
> > <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > > Ya, so, say you are doing url_for or link_to, or any named route, you
> want
> > > to add ":canvas => false" to the list of options when generating the
> URL.
> > > That will tell it to make the URL point to your external site.  It works
> the
> > > other way as well, to generate one into Facebook space, by setting
> canvas to
> > > true.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > was not using canvs false. i am on 2.0.2
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Christopher Bailey
> > > > <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > > > > Yes, see my prior thread about it.  What version of Rails are you
> using?
> > > > > I'm having this issue with Rails 1.2.x, whereas Mike has said he
> doesn't
> > > > > have the problem in Rails 2.x.  I assume you are putting
> > > ":canvas=>false" as
> > > > > a parameter when generating the URL?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The URLs for CSS/JS files are being rewritten to the address
> specified
> > > > > > in the tunnel even when outside of the facebook canvas. Is anyone
> else
> > > > > > having this problem?
> > > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > > > > > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > > > > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Christopher Bailey
> > > > > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > > > > http://cobaltedge.com
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > >  Christopher Bailey
> > > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > > http://cobaltedge.com
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Christopher Bailey
> Cobalt Edge LLC
>  http://cobaltedge.com

From chris at cobaltedge.com  Mon Mar 10 16:11:57 2008
From: chris at cobaltedge.com (Christopher Bailey)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:11:57 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] facebooker is rewriting URLs even off of
	facebook canvas
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That won't cover all your needs.  Here's an example: say you have a set of
navigation links or tabs across the top of your Facebook app.  One of those
might actually be a link to your external site.  Yet, at the time those
links are generated, you are in the context of Facebook, so now your link
will not be correctly pointed to your external site.

Our app is primarily its own web app, but we have (well, it'll be public
soon, but not yet :) a Facebook app that is mixed in to our main app, and
both the web app and the Facebook app have links back and forth to each
other.  So, in both cases, I need to be able to say, during a single
request, this link is for Facebook, and this other link is not, etc.

On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Shouldn't be as simple as testing for one of the usual POST params
> that comes from Facebook?
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Christopher Bailey
>
> <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > It can't - it has no way of knowing whether the URL should be for within
> > Facebook or outside.  Many folks have controllers and actions that work
> in
> > both, and it just depends on the format, or various other things.
> >
> >
> > It might be nice to have a mechanism to say: only routes for this
> controller
> > are within Facebook, assume everything else is outside, as say a
> > configuration option or some such, but that is not consistent across
> > people's app's.  It would work for my app, and I've considered doing
> that
> > exact kind of modification for our code, but haven't gotten around to it
> > yet.  If I do, I'll post my solution.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Yeah, that seems kind of excessive no? I'm reading through all of the
> > > old discussion, trying to figure out why the facebook_url_rewriting.rb
> > > file is not working correctly. When not in the canvas it should
> > > automatically use the normal rails routes.
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Christopher Bailey
> > >
> > > <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > > > Ya, so, say you are doing url_for or link_to, or any named route,
> you
> > want
> > > > to add ":canvas => false" to the list of options when generating the
> > URL.
> > > > That will tell it to make the URL point to your external site.  It
> works
> > the
> > > > other way as well, to generate one into Facebook space, by setting
> > canvas to
> > > > true.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > was not using canvs false. i am on 2.0.2
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Christopher Bailey
> > > > > <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > > > > > Yes, see my prior thread about it.  What version of Rails are
> you
> > using?
> > > > > > I'm having this issue with Rails 1.2.x, whereas Mike has said he
> > doesn't
> > > > > > have the problem in Rails 2.x.  I assume you are putting
> > > > ":canvas=>false" as
> > > > > > a parameter when generating the URL?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > The URLs for CSS/JS files are being rewritten to the address
> > specified
> > > > > > > in the tunnel even when outside of the facebook canvas. Is
> anyone
> > else
> > > > > > > having this problem?
> > > > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > > > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > > > > > > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > > > > > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > Christopher Bailey
> > > > > > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > > > > > http://cobaltedge.com
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > >
> > > >  Christopher Bailey
> > > > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > > > http://cobaltedge.com
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Christopher Bailey
> > Cobalt Edge LLC
> >  http://cobaltedge.com
>



-- 
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From jonathan.otto at gmail.com  Mon Mar 10 16:25:36 2008
From: jonathan.otto at gmail.com (Jonathan Otto)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:25:36 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] facebooker is rewriting URLs even off of
	facebook canvas
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Agreed. Still, there are situations where I want the apps to be
separate - but from the same code (with the exception of the views).

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Christopher Bailey
<chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> That won't cover all your needs.  Here's an example: say you have a set of
> navigation links or tabs across the top of your Facebook app.  One of those
> might actually be a link to your external site.  Yet, at the time those
> links are generated, you are in the context of Facebook, so now your link
> will not be correctly pointed to your external site.
>
>
> Our app is primarily its own web app, but we have (well, it'll be public
> soon, but not yet :) a Facebook app that is mixed in to our main app, and
> both the web app and the Facebook app have links back and forth to each
> other.  So, in both cases, I need to be able to say, during a single
> request, this link is for Facebook, and this other link is not, etc.
>
>
>
> On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Shouldn't be as simple as testing for one of the usual POST params
> > that comes from Facebook?
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Christopher Bailey
> >
> > <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > > It can't - it has no way of knowing whether the URL should be for within
> > > Facebook or outside.  Many folks have controllers and actions that work
> in
> > > both, and it just depends on the format, or various other things.
> > >
> > >
> > > It might be nice to have a mechanism to say: only routes for this
> controller
> > > are within Facebook, assume everything else is outside, as say a
> > > configuration option or some such, but that is not consistent across
> > > people's app's.  It would work for my app, and I've considered doing
> that
> > > exact kind of modification for our code, but haven't gotten around to it
> > > yet.  If I do, I'll post my solution.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Yeah, that seems kind of excessive no? I'm reading through all of the
> > > > old discussion, trying to figure out why the facebook_url_rewriting.rb
> > > > file is not working correctly. When not in the canvas it should
> > > > automatically use the normal rails routes.
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Christopher Bailey
> > > >
> > > > <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > > > > Ya, so, say you are doing url_for or link_to, or any named route,
> you
> > > want
> > > > > to add ":canvas => false" to the list of options when generating the
> > > URL.
> > > > > That will tell it to make the URL point to your external site.  It
> works
> > > the
> > > > > other way as well, to generate one into Facebook space, by setting
> > > canvas to
> > > > > true.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > was not using canvs false. i am on 2.0.2
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Christopher Bailey
> > > > > > <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > Yes, see my prior thread about it.  What version of Rails are
> you
> > > using?
> > > > > > > I'm having this issue with Rails 1.2.x, whereas Mike has said he
> > > doesn't
> > > > > > > have the problem in Rails 2.x.  I assume you are putting
> > > > > ":canvas=>false" as
> > > > > > > a parameter when generating the URL?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > The URLs for CSS/JS files are being rewritten to the address
> > > specified
> > > > > > > > in the tunnel even when outside of the facebook canvas. Is
> anyone
> > > else
> > > > > > > > having this problem?
> > > > > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > > > > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > > > > > > > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > > > > > > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > --
> > > > > > > Christopher Bailey
> > > > > > > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > > > > > > http://cobaltedge.com
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > >
> > > > >  Christopher Bailey
> > > > > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > > > > http://cobaltedge.com
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Christopher Bailey
> > > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > >  http://cobaltedge.com
> >
>
>
>
> --
>  Christopher Bailey
> Cobalt Edge LLC
> http://cobaltedge.com

From chris at cobaltedge.com  Mon Mar 10 17:02:44 2008
From: chris at cobaltedge.com (Christopher Bailey)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:02:44 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] facebooker is rewriting URLs even off of
	facebook canvas
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I'm not sure I understand the distinction.  The app I'm working on is
different, in that I have a single controller that handles all our needs for
Facebook (our Facebook app is not big), and then many many other controllers
that handle our regular web app - all in the same code base.  If your app
only differs by the views it renders, then that's even tighter, and you
likely are controlling your output by format or similar.  In that case it's
technically even harder to discern where a URL goes, because you've got the
same controlling pulling double duty.

Basically, IMHO, what it comes down to, is what is your way of
distinguishing where a URL is destined for.  If you know all URL's for
certain controller(s) go to FB, then you could do a solution based on that.
 If you mix and match, then you have to find another criteria.  The canvas
option, when generating URL's provides a generalized solution for all this,
and handles the edge cases, where you want to generate a URL that goes is
not for the context you are in (e.g. you want a URL that goes to your
external web app, yet the current request is within your Facebook app, or
vice versa).  You shouldn't have to use it that often, so it seems like a
fairly easy solution, and low impact.

On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Agreed. Still, there are situations where I want the apps to be
> separate - but from the same code (with the exception of the views).
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Christopher Bailey
>
> <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > That won't cover all your needs.  Here's an example: say you have a set
> of
> > navigation links or tabs across the top of your Facebook app.  One of
> those
> > might actually be a link to your external site.  Yet, at the time those
> > links are generated, you are in the context of Facebook, so now your
> link
> > will not be correctly pointed to your external site.
> >
> >
> > Our app is primarily its own web app, but we have (well, it'll be public
> > soon, but not yet :) a Facebook app that is mixed in to our main app,
> and
> > both the web app and the Facebook app have links back and forth to each
> > other.  So, in both cases, I need to be able to say, during a single
> > request, this link is for Facebook, and this other link is not, etc.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Shouldn't be as simple as testing for one of the usual POST params
> > > that comes from Facebook?
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Christopher Bailey
> > >
> > > <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > > > It can't - it has no way of knowing whether the URL should be for
> within
> > > > Facebook or outside.  Many folks have controllers and actions that
> work
> > in
> > > > both, and it just depends on the format, or various other things.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > It might be nice to have a mechanism to say: only routes for this
> > controller
> > > > are within Facebook, assume everything else is outside, as say a
> > > > configuration option or some such, but that is not consistent across
> > > > people's app's.  It would work for my app, and I've considered doing
> > that
> > > > exact kind of modification for our code, but haven't gotten around
> to it
> > > > yet.  If I do, I'll post my solution.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Yeah, that seems kind of excessive no? I'm reading through all of
> the
> > > > > old discussion, trying to figure out why the
> facebook_url_rewriting.rb
> > > > > file is not working correctly. When not in the canvas it should
> > > > > automatically use the normal rails routes.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Christopher Bailey
> > > > >
> > > > > <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > > > > > Ya, so, say you are doing url_for or link_to, or any named
> route,
> > you
> > > > want
> > > > > > to add ":canvas => false" to the list of options when generating
> the
> > > > URL.
> > > > > > That will tell it to make the URL point to your external
> site.  It
> > works
> > > > the
> > > > > > other way as well, to generate one into Facebook space, by
> setting
> > > > canvas to
> > > > > > true.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > was not using canvs false. i am on 2.0.2
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Christopher Bailey
> > > > > > > <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > Yes, see my prior thread about it.  What version of Rails
> are
> > you
> > > > using?
> > > > > > > > I'm having this issue with Rails 1.2.x, whereas Mike has
> said he
> > > > doesn't
> > > > > > > > have the problem in Rails 2.x.  I assume you are putting
> > > > > > ":canvas=>false" as
> > > > > > > > a parameter when generating the URL?
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > The URLs for CSS/JS files are being rewritten to the
> address
> > > > specified
> > > > > > > > > in the tunnel even when outside of the facebook canvas. Is
> > anyone
> > > > else
> > > > > > > > > having this problem?
> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > > > > > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > > > > > > > > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > > > > > > > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > --
> > > > > > > > Christopher Bailey
> > > > > > > > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > > > > > > > http://cobaltedge.com
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  Christopher Bailey
> > > > > > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > > > > > http://cobaltedge.com
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Christopher Bailey
> > > > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > > >  http://cobaltedge.com
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >  Christopher Bailey
> > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > http://cobaltedge.com
>



-- 
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Cobalt Edge LLC
http://cobaltedge.com
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From jonathan.otto at gmail.com  Mon Mar 10 17:46:50 2008
From: jonathan.otto at gmail.com (Jonathan Otto)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:46:50 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] facebooker is rewriting URLs even off of
	facebook canvas
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Message-ID: <b0e948460803101446v2c0927fi6c259459ddd237fa@mail.gmail.com>

I am doing the latter - using format to control output, but I think we
may be talking about different things.

The URL rewriting on routes actually does work. What doesn't work is
the Rails Root url generation. Even when outside of the canvas (and
even when the tunnel is off), it is using the rails root URL from the
tunnel. For example:

When in Facebook, I want my stylesheet and javascript urls to be:
example.com:8888/style.css (which obviously works)

When not in Facebook, I want my stylesheet and javascript urls to be:
example.com/style.css, or when localhosting, localhost:3000/style.css

Currently, it is just using the tunnel address all the time -
example.com:8000/style.css

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Christopher Bailey
<chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand the distinction.  The app I'm working on is
> different, in that I have a single controller that handles all our needs for
> Facebook (our Facebook app is not big), and then many many other controllers
> that handle our regular web app - all in the same code base.  If your app
> only differs by the views it renders, then that's even tighter, and you
> likely are controlling your output by format or similar.  In that case it's
> technically even harder to discern where a URL goes, because you've got the
> same controlling pulling double duty.
>
>
> Basically, IMHO, what it comes down to, is what is your way of
> distinguishing where a URL is destined for.  If you know all URL's for
> certain controller(s) go to FB, then you could do a solution based on that.
> If you mix and match, then you have to find another criteria.  The canvas
> option, when generating URL's provides a generalized solution for all this,
> and handles the edge cases, where you want to generate a URL that goes is
> not for the context you are in (e.g. you want a URL that goes to your
> external web app, yet the current request is within your Facebook app, or
> vice versa).  You shouldn't have to use it that often, so it seems like a
> fairly easy solution, and low impact.
>
>
>
> On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Agreed. Still, there are situations where I want the apps to be
> > separate - but from the same code (with the exception of the views).
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Christopher Bailey
> >
> > <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > > That won't cover all your needs.  Here's an example: say you have a set
> of
> > > navigation links or tabs across the top of your Facebook app.  One of
> those
> > > might actually be a link to your external site.  Yet, at the time those
> > > links are generated, you are in the context of Facebook, so now your
> link
> > > will not be correctly pointed to your external site.
> > >
> > >
> > > Our app is primarily its own web app, but we have (well, it'll be public
> > > soon, but not yet :) a Facebook app that is mixed in to our main app,
> and
> > > both the web app and the Facebook app have links back and forth to each
> > > other.  So, in both cases, I need to be able to say, during a single
> > > request, this link is for Facebook, and this other link is not, etc.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Shouldn't be as simple as testing for one of the usual POST params
> > > > that comes from Facebook?
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Christopher Bailey
> > > >
> > > > <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > > > > It can't - it has no way of knowing whether the URL should be for
> within
> > > > > Facebook or outside.  Many folks have controllers and actions that
> work
> > > in
> > > > > both, and it just depends on the format, or various other things.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > It might be nice to have a mechanism to say: only routes for this
> > > controller
> > > > > are within Facebook, assume everything else is outside, as say a
> > > > > configuration option or some such, but that is not consistent across
> > > > > people's app's.  It would work for my app, and I've considered doing
> > > that
> > > > > exact kind of modification for our code, but haven't gotten around
> to it
> > > > > yet.  If I do, I'll post my solution.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > Yeah, that seems kind of excessive no? I'm reading through all of
> the
> > > > > > old discussion, trying to figure out why the
> facebook_url_rewriting.rb
> > > > > > file is not working correctly. When not in the canvas it should
> > > > > > automatically use the normal rails routes.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Christopher Bailey
> > > > > >
> > > > > > <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > Ya, so, say you are doing url_for or link_to, or any named
> route,
> > > you
> > > > > want
> > > > > > > to add ":canvas => false" to the list of options when generating
> the
> > > > > URL.
> > > > > > > That will tell it to make the URL point to your external site.
> It
> > > works
> > > > > the
> > > > > > > other way as well, to generate one into Facebook space, by
> setting
> > > > > canvas to
> > > > > > > true.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > was not using canvs false. i am on 2.0.2
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Christopher Bailey
> > > > > > > > <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > Yes, see my prior thread about it.  What version of Rails
> are
> > > you
> > > > > using?
> > > > > > > > > I'm having this issue with Rails 1.2.x, whereas Mike has
> said he
> > > > > doesn't
> > > > > > > > > have the problem in Rails 2.x.  I assume you are putting
> > > > > > > ":canvas=>false" as
> > > > > > > > > a parameter when generating the URL?
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > The URLs for CSS/JS files are being rewritten to the
> address
> > > > > specified
> > > > > > > > > > in the tunnel even when outside of the facebook canvas. Is
> > > anyone
> > > > > else
> > > > > > > > > > having this problem?
> > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > > > > > > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > > > > > > > > > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > > > > > > > > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > --
> > > > > > > > > Christopher Bailey
> > > > > > > > > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > > > > > > > > http://cobaltedge.com
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > --
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >  Christopher Bailey
> > > > > > > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > > > > > > http://cobaltedge.com
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Christopher Bailey
> > > > > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > > > >  http://cobaltedge.com
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >  Christopher Bailey
> > > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > > http://cobaltedge.com
> >
>
>
>
> --
>  Christopher Bailey
> Cobalt Edge LLC
> http://cobaltedge.com

From chris at cobaltedge.com  Mon Mar 10 17:59:40 2008
From: chris at cobaltedge.com (Christopher Bailey)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:59:40 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] facebooker is rewriting URLs even off of
	facebook canvas
In-Reply-To: <b0e948460803101446v2c0927fi6c259459ddd237fa@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <443c240c0803101459n177f01d7mf518f5655186a740@mail.gmail.com>

Oh, ya, ok.  Have you set the Asset host?  In environment.rb:

ActionController::Base.asset_host = "http://www.example.com"



On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am doing the latter - using format to control output, but I think we
> may be talking about different things.
>
> The URL rewriting on routes actually does work. What doesn't work is
> the Rails Root url generation. Even when outside of the canvas (and
> even when the tunnel is off), it is using the rails root URL from the
> tunnel. For example:
>
> When in Facebook, I want my stylesheet and javascript urls to be:
> example.com:8888/style.css (which obviously works)
>
> When not in Facebook, I want my stylesheet and javascript urls to be:
> example.com/style.css, or when localhosting, localhost:3000/style.css
>
> Currently, it is just using the tunnel address all the time -
> example.com:8000/style.css
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Christopher Bailey
>
> <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > I'm not sure I understand the distinction.  The app I'm working on is
> > different, in that I have a single controller that handles all our needs
> for
> > Facebook (our Facebook app is not big), and then many many other
> controllers
> > that handle our regular web app - all in the same code base.  If your
> app
> > only differs by the views it renders, then that's even tighter, and you
> > likely are controlling your output by format or similar.  In that case
> it's
> > technically even harder to discern where a URL goes, because you've got
> the
> > same controlling pulling double duty.
> >
> >
> > Basically, IMHO, what it comes down to, is what is your way of
> > distinguishing where a URL is destined for.  If you know all URL's for
> > certain controller(s) go to FB, then you could do a solution based on
> that.
> > If you mix and match, then you have to find another criteria.  The
> canvas
> > option, when generating URL's provides a generalized solution for all
> this,
> > and handles the edge cases, where you want to generate a URL that goes
> is
> > not for the context you are in (e.g. you want a URL that goes to your
> > external web app, yet the current request is within your Facebook app,
> or
> > vice versa).  You shouldn't have to use it that often, so it seems like
> a
> > fairly easy solution, and low impact.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Agreed. Still, there are situations where I want the apps to be
> > > separate - but from the same code (with the exception of the views).
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Christopher Bailey
> > >
> > > <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > > > That won't cover all your needs.  Here's an example: say you have a
> set
> > of
> > > > navigation links or tabs across the top of your Facebook app.  One
> of
> > those
> > > > might actually be a link to your external site.  Yet, at the time
> those
> > > > links are generated, you are in the context of Facebook, so now your
> > link
> > > > will not be correctly pointed to your external site.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Our app is primarily its own web app, but we have (well, it'll be
> public
> > > > soon, but not yet :) a Facebook app that is mixed in to our main
> app,
> > and
> > > > both the web app and the Facebook app have links back and forth to
> each
> > > > other.  So, in both cases, I need to be able to say, during a single
> > > > request, this link is for Facebook, and this other link is not, etc.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Shouldn't be as simple as testing for one of the usual POST params
> > > > > that comes from Facebook?
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Christopher Bailey
> > > > >
> > > > > <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > > > > > It can't - it has no way of knowing whether the URL should be
> for
> > within
> > > > > > Facebook or outside.  Many folks have controllers and actions
> that
> > work
> > > > in
> > > > > > both, and it just depends on the format, or various other
> things.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It might be nice to have a mechanism to say: only routes for
> this
> > > > controller
> > > > > > are within Facebook, assume everything else is outside, as say a
> > > > > > configuration option or some such, but that is not consistent
> across
> > > > > > people's app's.  It would work for my app, and I've considered
> doing
> > > > that
> > > > > > exact kind of modification for our code, but haven't gotten
> around
> > to it
> > > > > > yet.  If I do, I'll post my solution.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > Yeah, that seems kind of excessive no? I'm reading through all
> of
> > the
> > > > > > > old discussion, trying to figure out why the
> > facebook_url_rewriting.rb
> > > > > > > file is not working correctly. When not in the canvas it
> should
> > > > > > > automatically use the normal rails routes.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Christopher Bailey
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > Ya, so, say you are doing url_for or link_to, or any named
> > route,
> > > > you
> > > > > > want
> > > > > > > > to add ":canvas => false" to the list of options when
> generating
> > the
> > > > > > URL.
> > > > > > > > That will tell it to make the URL point to your external
> site.
> > It
> > > > works
> > > > > > the
> > > > > > > > other way as well, to generate one into Facebook space, by
> > setting
> > > > > > canvas to
> > > > > > > > true.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > was not using canvs false. i am on 2.0.2
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Christopher Bailey
> > > > > > > > > <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > Yes, see my prior thread about it.  What version of
> Rails
> > are
> > > > you
> > > > > > using?
> > > > > > > > > > I'm having this issue with Rails 1.2.x, whereas Mike has
> > said he
> > > > > > doesn't
> > > > > > > > > > have the problem in Rails 2.x.  I assume you are putting
> > > > > > > > ":canvas=>false" as
> > > > > > > > > > a parameter when generating the URL?
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > > The URLs for CSS/JS files are being rewritten to the
> > address
> > > > > > specified
> > > > > > > > > > > in the tunnel even when outside of the facebook
> canvas. Is
> > > > anyone
> > > > > > else
> > > > > > > > > > > having this problem?
> > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > > > > > > > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > > > > > > > > > > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > > > > > > > > > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> > > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > --
> > > > > > > > > > Christopher Bailey
> > > > > > > > > > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > > > > > > > > > http://cobaltedge.com
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > --
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >  Christopher Bailey
> > > > > > > > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > > > > > > > http://cobaltedge.com
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > Christopher Bailey
> > > > > > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > > > > >  http://cobaltedge.com
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > >  Christopher Bailey
> > > > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > > > http://cobaltedge.com
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >  Christopher Bailey
> > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > http://cobaltedge.com
>



-- 
Christopher Bailey
Cobalt Edge LLC
http://cobaltedge.com
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From mmangino at elevatedrails.com  Mon Mar 10 18:32:37 2008
From: mmangino at elevatedrails.com (Mike Mangino)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:32:37 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] facebooker is rewriting URLs even off of
	facebook canvas
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	<b0e948460803101446v2c0927fi6c259459ddd237fa@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mar 10, 2008, at 4:46 PM, Jonathan Otto wrote:

> I am doing the latter - using format to control output, but I think we
> may be talking about different things.
>
> The URL rewriting on routes actually does work. What doesn't work is
> the Rails Root url generation. Even when outside of the canvas (and
> even when the tunnel is off), it is using the rails root URL from the
> tunnel. For example:
>
> When in Facebook, I want my stylesheet and javascript urls to be:
> example.com:8888/style.css (which obviously works)
>
> When not in Facebook, I want my stylesheet and javascript urls to be:
> example.com/style.css, or when localhosting, localhost:3000/style.css
>
> Currently, it is just using the tunnel address all the time -
> example.com:8000/style.css



Why does this matter? Both need to resolve to the same place.

By default, Facebooker sets the ActionController::Base.asset_host to  
point to your server so that assets are served from the right  
location. What URL gets used doesn't really matter, as long as it  
resolves an can be contacted. If you have a preference, change your  
asset_host. If you have a need for them to vary, you're going to need  
to hack something to change the asset_host on a request by request  
basis. You'll have the same problem if you allow multiple domain names  
and use the asset host.

Mike


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




From jonathan.otto at gmail.com  Mon Mar 10 18:49:24 2008
From: jonathan.otto at gmail.com (Jonathan Otto)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:49:24 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] facebooker is rewriting URLs even off of
	facebook canvas
In-Reply-To: <A87035E1-9B5D-46D9-BCB9-50F4F7ED03F8@elevatedrails.com>
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	<A87035E1-9B5D-46D9-BCB9-50F4F7ED03F8@elevatedrails.com>
Message-ID: <b0e948460803101549w6db9b2ecy3ccc6f2a4e37773e@mail.gmail.com>

Mike, you're right, it shouldn't and doesn't matter - unless you are
in development mode. I'm developing a Facebook app and a standalone
app at the same time. I don't want the tunnel URL being used when I am
testing the standalone app at localhost:3000.

Here is one way to get around this problem:

In application.rb, I have:

before_filter :from_facebook?

  def from_facebook?
    if !params[:fb_sig].nil?
      ActionController::Base.asset_host =
YAML.load_file("#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/facebooker.yml")[RAILS_ENV]['callback_url']
      ensure_application_is_installed_by_facebook_user
    else
      ActionController::Base.asset_host = nil
    end
  end

So you see it sets the asset_host to nil (which will make it relative)
unless the user is in the Facebook canvas - which will then set it to
the callback URL.

Remember, the callback URL is necessary during development of Facebook
applications, but is not necessary for non-Facebook applications. SO
I'm trying to avoid my application referencing the Facebook callback
URL when in development mode and not in the Facebook canvas.

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Mike Mangino
<mmangino at elevatedrails.com> wrote:
>
>  On Mar 10, 2008, at 4:46 PM, Jonathan Otto wrote:
>
>  > I am doing the latter - using format to control output, but I think we
>  > may be talking about different things.
>  >
>  > The URL rewriting on routes actually does work. What doesn't work is
>  > the Rails Root url generation. Even when outside of the canvas (and
>  > even when the tunnel is off), it is using the rails root URL from the
>  > tunnel. For example:
>  >
>  > When in Facebook, I want my stylesheet and javascript urls to be:
>  > example.com:8888/style.css (which obviously works)
>  >
>  > When not in Facebook, I want my stylesheet and javascript urls to be:
>  > example.com/style.css, or when localhosting, localhost:3000/style.css
>  >
>  > Currently, it is just using the tunnel address all the time -
>  > example.com:8000/style.css
>
>
>
>  Why does this matter? Both need to resolve to the same place.
>
>  By default, Facebooker sets the ActionController::Base.asset_host to
>  point to your server so that assets are served from the right
>  location. What URL gets used doesn't really matter, as long as it
>  resolves an can be contacted. If you have a preference, change your
>  asset_host. If you have a need for them to vary, you're going to need
>  to hack something to change the asset_host on a request by request
>  basis. You'll have the same problem if you allow multiple domain names
>  and use the asset host.
>
>  Mike
>
>
>  --
>  Mike Mangino
>  http://www.elevatedrails.com
>
>
>
>

From chris at cobaltedge.com  Mon Mar 10 19:06:01 2008
From: chris at cobaltedge.com (Christopher Bailey)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:06:01 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] facebooker is rewriting URLs even off of
	facebook canvas
In-Reply-To: <b0e948460803101549w6db9b2ecy3ccc6f2a4e37773e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <b0e948460803101145s425367djc8dcd9c8b7050731@mail.gmail.com>
	<b0e948460803101236h5cc44488rc299779572973c05@mail.gmail.com>
	<443c240c0803101259y2ab078a1lf95bef2ce3717192@mail.gmail.com>
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	<443c240c0803101311j5a6e2342h4673a81aed8d2c35@mail.gmail.com>
	<b0e948460803101325w566f3688wd445b142db53eeb3@mail.gmail.com>
	<443c240c0803101402u23192e7ei9bdc2d6db841b661@mail.gmail.com>
	<b0e948460803101446v2c0927fi6c259459ddd237fa@mail.gmail.com>
	<A87035E1-9B5D-46D9-BCB9-50F4F7ED03F8@elevatedrails.com>
	<b0e948460803101549w6db9b2ecy3ccc6f2a4e37773e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <443c240c0803101606x1e33ce75i64d609f1c6da93@mail.gmail.com>

The other approach is setting your asset host based on your Rails
environment.  That's what I do.  This is also handy if you have a continuous
integration server, a staging server, and so on.  For dev I set it locally,
but then we have a staging/test server, and that is different than locally,
and also not our main domain name, so I need to set it for that, etc.

The asset host is probably something that deserves a bit of doc, mostly to
point out the caveats of it's use, in particular as pertains to development
vs. production (or staging/test, etc.).  But uh, I guess this thread would
be the doc ;-)

On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Mike, you're right, it shouldn't and doesn't matter - unless you are
> in development mode. I'm developing a Facebook app and a standalone
> app at the same time. I don't want the tunnel URL being used when I am
> testing the standalone app at localhost:3000.
>
> Here is one way to get around this problem:
>
> In application.rb, I have:
>
> before_filter :from_facebook?
>
>   def from_facebook?
>     if !params[:fb_sig].nil?
>       ActionController::Base.asset_host =
> YAML.load_file
> ("#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/facebooker.yml")[RAILS_ENV]['callback_url']
>       ensure_application_is_installed_by_facebook_user
>     else
>       ActionController::Base.asset_host = nil
>     end
>   end
>
> So you see it sets the asset_host to nil (which will make it relative)
> unless the user is in the Facebook canvas - which will then set it to
> the callback URL.
>
> Remember, the callback URL is necessary during development of Facebook
> applications, but is not necessary for non-Facebook applications. SO
> I'm trying to avoid my application referencing the Facebook callback
> URL when in development mode and not in the Facebook canvas.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Mike Mangino
> <mmangino at elevatedrails.com> wrote:
> >
> >  On Mar 10, 2008, at 4:46 PM, Jonathan Otto wrote:
> >
> >  > I am doing the latter - using format to control output, but I think
> we
> >  > may be talking about different things.
> >  >
> >  > The URL rewriting on routes actually does work. What doesn't work is
> >  > the Rails Root url generation. Even when outside of the canvas (and
> >  > even when the tunnel is off), it is using the rails root URL from the
> >  > tunnel. For example:
> >  >
> >  > When in Facebook, I want my stylesheet and javascript urls to be:
> >  > example.com:8888/style.css (which obviously works)
> >  >
> >  > When not in Facebook, I want my stylesheet and javascript urls to be:
> >  > example.com/style.css, or when localhosting, localhost:3000/style.css
> >  >
> >  > Currently, it is just using the tunnel address all the time -
> >  > example.com:8000/style.css
> >
> >
> >
> >  Why does this matter? Both need to resolve to the same place.
> >
> >  By default, Facebooker sets the ActionController::Base.asset_host to
> >  point to your server so that assets are served from the right
> >  location. What URL gets used doesn't really matter, as long as it
> >  resolves an can be contacted. If you have a preference, change your
> >  asset_host. If you have a need for them to vary, you're going to need
> >  to hack something to change the asset_host on a request by request
> >  basis. You'll have the same problem if you allow multiple domain names
> >  and use the asset host.
> >
> >  Mike
> >
> >
> >  --
> >  Mike Mangino
> >  http://www.elevatedrails.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
>



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Cobalt Edge LLC
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From jonathan.otto at gmail.com  Tue Mar 11 12:15:36 2008
From: jonathan.otto at gmail.com (Jonathan Otto)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:15:36 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] detecting if in the FB canvas
Message-ID: <b0e948460803110915q6e4707coa25dae63adb6755d@mail.gmail.com>

I have been checking the params for params[:fb_sig] to detect if the
client is in the Facebook canvas, but those don't work at the
beginning of a controller when you're calling before_filters.

I have a require_login in the before_filter, but I want to skip it if
the user is from Facebook. So are there any other ways to check that
the client is coming from the canvas?

From wil at 3cglabs.com  Tue Mar 11 15:03:16 2008
From: wil at 3cglabs.com (Wilhelm Chung)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:03:16 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker-talk Digest, Vol 5, Issue 12
In-Reply-To: <mailman.251.1205189370.5218.facebooker-talk@rubyforge.org>
References: <mailman.251.1205189370.5218.facebooker-talk@rubyforge.org>
Message-ID: <4cdd0d160803111203n18cd62b7u81dc3e60d789868c@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

I wanted to test requests from internal facebook apps, so I've been
mimicking FBML requests from facebook in my tests using the following:

  def test_can_facebook_internal_app_login
    fb_login_as :facebooker

    num_of_members = Member.count
    facebook_request :get, :home
    assert_response :success

    assert_equal num_of_members, Member.count
    assert_session_user_data_exists
  end

The code is fairly simple:

module Facebooker
  module Rails
    module TestHelpers

      # user facebook id for facebook_request
      def set_user_facebook_id(fb_id)
        @fb_id = fb_id
      end

      # makes a request as if it was from facebook.  Need to
set_user_facebook_id() first
      # so it knows whom to send the request as.
      def facebook_request(http_verb, action, params = { })
        fb_params = { "fb_sig_time" => Time.now.to_f,
          "fb_sig_locale" => "en_US",
          "fb_sig_session_key" => "d82ebe8648254d4cef7d993a-1953401",
          "fb_sig_position_fix" => "1",
          "fb_sig_in_canvas" => "1",
          "fb_sig_request_method" => http_verb.to_s.upcase,
          "fb_sig_expires" => "0",
          "fb_sig_added" => "1",
          "fb_sig_api_key" => Facebooker::Session.api_key,
          "fb_sig_profile_update_time" => "1203267404",
          "fb_sig_user" => @fb_id }
        fb_params.merge!("fb_sig" => signature_for(fb_params))

        @request.accept = "text/fbml"
        send(http_verb, action, params.merge(fb_params))
        @request.accept = "text/html"
      end

      private
      # TODO this is copied from session.rb  MUST REFACTOR
      def signature_for(params)
        facebook_sig_params = params.inject({}) do |collection, pair|
          collection[pair.first.sub(/^fb_sig_/, '')] = pair.last if
pair.first[0,7] == 'fb_sig_'
          collection
        end
        raw_string = facebook_sig_params.map{ |*args| args.join('=') }.sort.join
        actual_sig = Digest::MD5.hexdigest([raw_string,
Facebooker::Session.secret_key].join)

        Digest::MD5.hexdigest([raw_string, Facebooker::Session.secret_key].join)
      end

    end
  end
end

I had wanted to submit the code as a patch, but, there are two or
three glaring flaws with the code:
1) signature_for is duplicated here, because it's a private/protected
method in Facebooker::Session.  Would it be a bad idea to call
send(:singature_for) to call the protected method?  Or is there
another way around it?

2) One has to call set_user_facebook_id in the setup of your tests in
order for facebook_request to work.

3) fb_sig_session_key expires over time, and I have to get another one
from a real facebook request.  This is tedious.  Is there a way to
generate a session key, or request a new one from facebook while
you're in the unit tests?

I was wondering if anyone had good opinions or solutions to this, so
that they can be generic enough and clean enough for others to use.
Thanks.

From wil at 3cglabs.com  Tue Mar 11 15:07:51 2008
From: wil at 3cglabs.com (Wilhelm Chung)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:07:51 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebook_request in unit tests
Message-ID: <4cdd0d160803111207t5a2b207dxb1db8cdfb0aab871@mail.gmail.com>

Apologies for not chaning the subject line. :(


Hi all,

I wanted to test requests from internal facebook apps, so I've been
mimicking FBML requests from facebook in my tests using the following:

 def test_can_facebook_internal_app_login
   fb_login_as :facebooker

   num_of_members = Member.count
   facebook_request :get, :home
   assert_response :success

   assert_equal num_of_members, Member.count
   assert_session_user_data_exists
 end

The code is fairly simple:

module Facebooker
 module Rails
   module TestHelpers

     # user facebook id for facebook_request
     def set_user_facebook_id(fb_id)
       @fb_id = fb_id
     end

     # makes a request as if it was from facebook.  Need to
set_user_facebook_id() first
     # so it knows whom to send the request as.
     def facebook_request(http_verb, action, params = { })
       fb_params = { "fb_sig_time" => Time.now.to_f,
         "fb_sig_locale" => "en_US",
         "fb_sig_session_key" => "d82ebe8648254d4cef7d993a-1953401",
         "fb_sig_position_fix" => "1",
         "fb_sig_in_canvas" => "1",
         "fb_sig_request_method" => http_verb.to_s.upcase,
         "fb_sig_expires" => "0",
         "fb_sig_added" => "1",
         "fb_sig_api_key" => Facebooker::Session.api_key,
         "fb_sig_profile_update_time" => "1203267404",
         "fb_sig_user" => @fb_id }
       fb_params.merge!("fb_sig" => signature_for(fb_params))

       @request.accept = "text/fbml"
       send(http_verb, action, params.merge(fb_params))
       @request.accept = "text/html"
     end

     private
     # TODO this is copied from session.rb  MUST REFACTOR
     def signature_for(params)
       facebook_sig_params = params.inject({}) do |collection, pair|
         collection[pair.first.sub(/^fb_sig_/, '')] = pair.last if
pair.first[0,7] == 'fb_sig_'
         collection
       end
       raw_string = facebook_sig_params.map{ |*args| args.join('=') }.sort.join
       actual_sig = Digest::MD5.hexdigest([raw_string,
Facebooker::Session.secret_key].join)

       Digest::MD5.hexdigest([raw_string, Facebooker::Session.secret_key].join)
     end

   end
 end
end

I had wanted to submit the code as a patch, but, there are two or
three glaring flaws with the code:
1) signature_for is duplicated here, because it's a private/protected
method in Facebooker::Session.  Would it be a bad idea to call
send(:singature_for) to call the protected method?  Or is there
another way around it?

2) One has to call set_user_facebook_id in the setup of your tests in
order for facebook_request to work.

3) fb_sig_session_key expires over time, and I have to get another one
from a real facebook request.  This is tedious.  Is there a way to
generate a session key, or request a new one from facebook while
you're in the unit tests?

I was wondering if anyone had good opinions or solutions to this, so
that they can be generic enough and clean enough for others to use.
Thanks.

From phylae at gmail.com  Tue Mar 11 16:59:20 2008
From: phylae at gmail.com (Paul Cortens)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:59:20 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] trouble with MyPublisher.deliver_story
Message-ID: <f3d023a00803111359x6f4e2014rbb84e466c894f636@mail.gmail.com>

hi,

I can't seem to be able to delivery stories!

I have this in my controller
     MyPublisher.deliver_story(@current_facebook_user.friends.first,
@current_facebook_user, @object.id)


This is in models/my_publisher.rb

# story is published to the story of the to user
    def story(to, f, object_id)
      send_as :story
      recipients to
      title "An object?"
      body "#{fb_name(f)} is sending you a message about #{link_to('this
object', show_object_path(object_id))}."
    end


No exceptions are raise. However, the story never shows up.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Paul
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From phylae at gmail.com  Tue Mar 11 17:01:54 2008
From: phylae at gmail.com (Paul Cortens)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:01:54 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] trouble with MyPublisher.deliver_story
In-Reply-To: <f3d023a00803111359x6f4e2014rbb84e466c894f636@mail.gmail.com>
References: <f3d023a00803111359x6f4e2014rbb84e466c894f636@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <f3d023a00803111401h9224f09rf017264a7d109a33@mail.gmail.com>

I should also note that sending a notification did work.

Paul

On 3/11/08, Paul Cortens <phylae at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> I can't seem to be able to delivery stories!
>
> I have this in my controller
>      MyPublisher.deliver_story(@current_facebook_user.friends.first,
> @current_facebook_user, @object.id)
>
>
> This is in models/my_publisher.rb
>
> # story is published to the story of the to user
>     def story(to, f, object_id)
>       send_as :story
>       recipients to
>       title "An object?"
>       body "#{fb_name(f)} is sending you a message about #{link_to('this
> object', show_object_path(object_id))}."
>     end
>
>
> No exceptions are raise. However, the story never shows up.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>



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From phylae at gmail.com  Tue Mar 11 17:51:58 2008
From: phylae at gmail.com (Paul Cortens)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:51:58 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] trouble with MyPublisher.deliver_story
In-Reply-To: <f3d023a00803111359x6f4e2014rbb84e466c894f636@mail.gmail.com>
References: <f3d023a00803111359x6f4e2014rbb84e466c894f636@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <f3d023a00803111451t5b353ebfu6a350863418f05bd@mail.gmail.com>

Nevermind. This page cleared things up for me
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/PublishActionOfUser_vs._PublishStoryToUser

I was confusing actions and stories.

Sorry to be a bother.

Paul

On 3/11/08, Paul Cortens <phylae at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> I can't seem to be able to delivery stories!
>
> I have this in my controller
>      MyPublisher.deliver_story(@current_facebook_user.friends.first,
> @current_facebook_user, @object.id)
>
>
> This is in models/my_publisher.rb
>
> # story is published to the story of the to user
>     def story(to, f, object_id)
>       send_as :story
>       recipients to
>       title "An object?"
>       body "#{fb_name(f)} is sending you a message about #{link_to('this
> object', show_object_path(object_id))}."
>     end
>
>
> No exceptions are raise. However, the story never shows up.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>



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From wil at 3cglabs.com  Tue Mar 11 18:01:59 2008
From: wil at 3cglabs.com (Wilhelm Chung)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:01:59 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] How to get a facebook session for desktop
	applications (or unit tests?)
Message-ID: <4cdd0d160803111501o765a0091tb6e62c0e6adb200e@mail.gmail.com>

Normally, in a rails app, all one would have to do is call
set_facebook_session, or the ensure_* filters to get a valid session.
I've been looking through the sessions code to figure out how to get a
valid session for desktop applications (or unit tests)--basically
outside of rails controller.

As far as I can ascertain, you should just be able to do this:

require 'facebooker'

sess = Facebooker::Session.create
sess.secure!

Since secure! calls auth_token to get authentication token on its own
if it hadn't already.  But instead this throws a
Facebooker::Session::MissingOrInvalidParameter:

=> #<Facebooker::Session:0xb66756e0
@secret_key="829bbe2f0255043cc906b064a9239c07",
@api_key="98519f7e0ed4e6e8ad01bfb2864c1e3c">
>> sess.secure!
Facebooker::Session::MissingOrInvalidParameter: Invalid parameter
        from /home/wil/proj/3cgworkspace/mobtropolis/vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/parser.rb:386:in
`process'
        from /home/wil/proj/3cgworkspace/mobtropolis/vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/parser.rb:15:in
`parse'
        from /home/wil/proj/3cgworkspace/mobtropolis/vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/service.rb:13:in
`post'
        from /home/wil/proj/3cgworkspace/mobtropolis/vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/session.rb:398:in
`post'
        from /home/wil/proj/3cgworkspace/mobtropolis/vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/session.rb:137:in
`secure!'
        from (irb):14

I think I'm missing something fundamental.  I've looked through the fb
developer docs and the facebooker code, but I"m coming up short.  Can
anyone set me straight?  Thanks.

Wilhelm

-- 
http://webjazz.blogspot.com
http://www.mobtropolis.com
http://www.3cglabs.com

From sbwoodside at yahoo.com  Tue Mar 11 20:42:14 2008
From: sbwoodside at yahoo.com (S. Woodside)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:42:14 -0400
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] a way to restrict who can install your app,
	for private testing
Message-ID: <6D5AB4DD-16AC-44AD-8233-DF7C58F86034@yahoo.com>

This is something I just cooked up to allow me to restrict  
temporarily who can access my app, based on an array of UIDs. It's  
messy but works. Put at the top of your controller, at the end of  
your filters.

   # This filter is only until we open everything up
   before_filter do |c|
     acceptable_uids = ['594180515', '122612996']
     unless acceptable_uids.include? c.get_facebook_session.user.uid
       RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.debug "my UID = " +  
c.get_facebook_session.user.uid + " but acceptable_uids = " +  
acceptable_uids.to_s
       raise RuntimeError("This isn't going to work")
     end
   end
   def get_facebook_session
     @facebook_session
   end
	

If it deems the user unacceptable, it actually fails with:
NoMethodError (undefined method `RuntimeError' for  
FacebookController:Class):

I don't know why, I think it's got something to do with using a block  
or something. However, it still does what it's supposed to do, which  
is prevent anyone not on the list from seeing your app.

--simon

--
http://simonwoodside.com


From sbwoodside at yahoo.com  Tue Mar 11 20:59:11 2008
From: sbwoodside at yahoo.com (S. Woodside)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:59:11 -0400
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] patches on the rubyforge tracker
In-Reply-To: <4ab757a40803060230s2bef9d2fw6286fb1a5f5dd379@mail.gmail.com>
References: <6ADCC99E-E6AE-4FE3-AB42-95B9DD773C7F@yahoo.com>
	<4ab757a40803060230s2bef9d2fw6286fb1a5f5dd379@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1ECDDB86-BF96-4A1B-A03B-BA32C0CC990B@yahoo.com>

I know you're all gonna hate me (and think I'm dumb) for saying this,  
but I don't really have time to write tests, in fact I don't even  
know how yet. I moved it to patches but I probably won't get around  
to tests for quite a while, since it "works for me"...

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php? 
func=detail&aid=18772&group_id=4187&atid=16132

--simon

--
http://simonwoodside.com


On Mar 6, 2008, at 5:30 AM, Shane Vitarana wrote:

> Simon-
>
> You're close.  Just include tests, and put it in the "Patch" section
> of the tracker instead of "Bugs."
>
> Thanks!
> Shane
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 8:38 PM, S. Woodside <sbwoodside at yahoo.com>  
> wrote:
>> Hi I just made some changes / additions for myself in facebooker and
>>  posted the patches on rubyforge, e.g.:
>>
>>  https://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?
>>  func=detail&aid=18639&group_id=4187&atid=16130
>>
>>  (adds support for fb:dialog FBML tag)
>>
>>  Is this the right way to do it?
>>
>>  --simon
>>
>>  --
>>  http://simonwoodside.com
>>
>>  _______________________________________________
>>  Facebooker-talk mailing list
>>  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>>  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> http://shanesbrain.net | http://crimsonjet.com | http://myfitbuddy.com

From chris at cobaltedge.com  Tue Mar 11 23:13:20 2008
From: chris at cobaltedge.com (Christopher Bailey)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:13:20 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] a way to restrict who can install your app,
	for private testing
In-Reply-To: <6D5AB4DD-16AC-44AD-8233-DF7C58F86034@yahoo.com>
References: <6D5AB4DD-16AC-44AD-8233-DF7C58F86034@yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <443c240c0803112013s42f574e0vcc240185bc7a70e3@mail.gmail.com>

An alternative is simply to make your app not publicly installable, and to
designate certain people as "developers" of the app.  You can do this on the
app's settings page on Facebook.  That way you don't have to put code in
your app that you have to then take back out, etc.

I also tend to leverage the "test" users you can set up.  So, while I'm
doing my own testing (where only I am looking at the app, or a small set of
us), I set up some test users add them as friends, have them add the app,
etc., then go mark them as actual test user's in Facebook, etc.  I designate
these as "developers" of the app, so they have access.

On 3/11/08, S. Woodside <sbwoodside at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> This is something I just cooked up to allow me to restrict
> temporarily who can access my app, based on an array of UIDs. It's
> messy but works. Put at the top of your controller, at the end of
> your filters.
>
>    # This filter is only until we open everything up
>    before_filter do |c|
>      acceptable_uids = ['594180515', '122612996']
>      unless acceptable_uids.include? c.get_facebook_session.user.uid
>        RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.debug "my UID = " +
> c.get_facebook_session.user.uid + " but acceptable_uids = " +
> acceptable_uids.to_s
>        raise RuntimeError("This isn't going to work")
>      end
>    end
>    def get_facebook_session
>      @facebook_session
>    end
>
>
> If it deems the user unacceptable, it actually fails with:
> NoMethodError (undefined method `RuntimeError' for
> FacebookController:Class):
>
> I don't know why, I think it's got something to do with using a block
> or something. However, it still does what it's supposed to do, which
> is prevent anyone not on the list from seeing your app.
>
> --simon
>
>
> --
> http://simonwoodside.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>



-- 
Christopher Bailey
Cobalt Edge LLC
http://cobaltedge.com
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From mmangino at elevatedrails.com  Wed Mar 12 15:09:02 2008
From: mmangino at elevatedrails.com (Mike Mangino)
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:09:02 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Developing Facebook Platform Applications with
	Rails
Message-ID: <FC3EF17E-E9E3-49DB-8D04-BDBD3E7A35C2@elevatedrails.com>

I was hoping to announce this a month ago, but some legal wrangling  
took longer than expected.

Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails is now available  
in Beta at http://www.pragprog.com/titles/mmfacer

It walks you through creating a Facebook application with Facebooker,  
all the way from setup to handling large number of users.

Thank all of you for asking questions on this list. I did my best to  
answer all of them in the book. Expect to see more chapters shortly,  
as information on FBJS, profile updating and performance are added.

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




From jbresnik at gmail.com  Wed Mar 12 16:15:15 2008
From: jbresnik at gmail.com (John Bresnik)
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:15:15 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Developing Facebook Platform Applications
	with Rails
In-Reply-To: <FC3EF17E-E9E3-49DB-8D04-BDBD3E7A35C2@elevatedrails.com>
References: <FC3EF17E-E9E3-49DB-8D04-BDBD3E7A35C2@elevatedrails.com>
Message-ID: <3b8cec990803121315l2e7c57f2uefedf889fbcf4295@mail.gmail.com>

Alright.. very nice.

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Mike Mangino
<mmangino at elevatedrails.com> wrote:
> I was hoping to announce this a month ago, but some legal wrangling
>  took longer than expected.
>
>  Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails is now available
>  in Beta at http://www.pragprog.com/titles/mmfacer
>
>  It walks you through creating a Facebook application with Facebooker,
>  all the way from setup to handling large number of users.
>
>  Thank all of you for asking questions on this list. I did my best to
>  answer all of them in the book. Expect to see more chapters shortly,
>  as information on FBJS, profile updating and performance are added.
>
>  Mike
>  --
>  Mike Mangino
>  http://www.elevatedrails.com
>
>
>
>  _______________________________________________
>  Facebooker-talk mailing list
>  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>

From jnylund at yahoo.com  Wed Mar 12 16:29:03 2008
From: jnylund at yahoo.com (Joel Nylund)
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:29:03 -0400
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Developing Facebook Platform Applications
	with Rails
In-Reply-To: <FC3EF17E-E9E3-49DB-8D04-BDBD3E7A35C2@elevatedrails.com>
References: <FC3EF17E-E9E3-49DB-8D04-BDBD3E7A35C2@elevatedrails.com>
Message-ID: <6DB86F87-AD36-4E65-BD19-FC34822BAE36@yahoo.com>

Haven't had time to read it all, but from a quick browse it looks good  
so far!

Thanks Mike, we all need this badly!

Joel


On Mar 12, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Mike Mangino wrote:

> I was hoping to announce this a month ago, but some legal wrangling
> took longer than expected.
>
> Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails is now available
> in Beta at http://www.pragprog.com/titles/mmfacer
>
> It walks you through creating a Facebook application with Facebooker,
> all the way from setup to handling large number of users.
>
> Thank all of you for asking questions on this list. I did my best to
> answer all of them in the book. Expect to see more chapters shortly,
> as information on FBJS, profile updating and performance are added.
>
> Mike
> --
> Mike Mangino
> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk



From phylae at gmail.com  Thu Mar 13 03:39:34 2008
From: phylae at gmail.com (Paul Cortens)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:39:34 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] ActionView::TemplateError when FQL query does not
	return any results
Message-ID: <f3d023a00803130039w6b67fcf4kf931c2fa08965ec0@mail.gmail.com>

I submitted this as a bug here:
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=18799&group_id=4187&atid=16130

However, I just realized that I probably should have posted here first. Has
anyone else had a similar experiance with queries that don't return results?

I have the following FQL Query:

"SELECT uid FROM user WHERE has_added_app = 1 AND uid IN (SELECT uid2 FROM
friend WHERE uid1
= #{@current_facebook_user.id})"


It usually works just fine. However, in the unlikely case where a user has
no friends, I get this error:

ActionView::TemplateError (You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!
The error occurred while evaluating nil.name)

If a make these changes ...

Index: vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/parser.rb
===================================================================
--- vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/parser.rb (revision 200)
+++ vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/parser.rb (working copy)
@@ -249,7 +249,11 @@
def self.process(data)
root = element('fql_query_response', data)
first_child = root.children.reject{|c| c.kind_of?(REXML::Text)}.first
- [first_child.name, array_of_hashes(root, first_child.name)]
+ if first_child.nil?
+ [nil, array_of_hashes(root, nil)]
+ else
+ [first_child.name, array_of_hashes(root, first_child.name)]
+ end
end
end

====================================================================

... then things seem to work well.

I am sorry that I don't yet know enough about the facebook api or facebooker
to turn this into a real patch.
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From sbwoodside at yahoo.com  Thu Mar 13 15:56:10 2008
From: sbwoodside at yahoo.com (S. Woodside)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:56:10 -0400
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] a way to restrict who can install your app,
	for private testing
In-Reply-To: <443c240c0803112013s42f574e0vcc240185bc7a70e3@mail.gmail.com>
References: <6D5AB4DD-16AC-44AD-8233-DF7C58F86034@yahoo.com>
	<443c240c0803112013s42f574e0vcc240185bc7a70e3@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <9680BC3D-B8F1-4DC5-BB19-5A65D5682818@yahoo.com>

I considered both of those options, but I had problems.

1. Developers -- I'm going to have quite a few (maybe 30) people that  
I know privately testing the app, and I don't want to make them all  
developers, wouldn't that give them access to the app editing/ 
settings etc.

2. Test users -- I tried this, but since my app developer user isn't  
a test user, I found that simple fbml like fb:name wouldn't work  
because normal users can't see test users and vice-versa. Their  
implementation of test users seems quite terrible.

--simon

--
http://simonwoodside.com


On Mar 11, 2008, at 11:13 PM, Christopher Bailey wrote:

> An alternative is simply to make your app not publicly installable,  
> and to designate certain people as "developers" of the app.  You  
> can do this on the app's settings page on Facebook.  That way you  
> don't have to put code in your app that you have to then take back  
> out, etc.
>
>
> I also tend to leverage the "test" users you can set up.  So, while  
> I'm doing my own testing (where only I am looking at the app, or a  
> small set of us), I set up some test users add them as friends,  
> have them add the app, etc., then go mark them as actual test  
> user's in Facebook, etc.  I designate these as "developers" of the  
> app, so they have access.
>
> On 3/11/08, S. Woodside <sbwoodside at yahoo.com> wrote: This is  
> something I just cooked up to allow me to restrict
> temporarily who can access my app, based on an array of UIDs. It's
> messy but works. Put at the top of your controller, at the end of
> your filters.
>
>    # This filter is only until we open everything up
>    before_filter do |c|
>      acceptable_uids = ['594180515', '122612996']
>      unless acceptable_uids.include? c.get_facebook_session.user.uid
>        RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.debug "my UID = " +
> c.get_facebook_session.user.uid + " but acceptable_uids = " +
> acceptable_uids.to_s
>        raise RuntimeError("This isn't going to work")
>      end
>    end
>    def get_facebook_session
>      @facebook_session
>    end
>
>
> If it deems the user unacceptable, it actually fails with:
> NoMethodError (undefined method `RuntimeError' for
> FacebookController:Class):
>
> I don't know why, I think it's got something to do with using a block
> or something. However, it still does what it's supposed to do, which
> is prevent anyone not on the list from seeing your app.
>
> --simon
>
>
> --
> http://simonwoodside.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
>
>
> -- 
> Christopher Bailey
> Cobalt Edge LLC
> http://cobaltedge.com

From digidigo at gmail.com  Thu Mar 13 16:02:19 2008
From: digidigo at gmail.com (David Clements)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:02:19 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] a way to restrict who can install your app,
	for private testing
In-Reply-To: <9680BC3D-B8F1-4DC5-BB19-5A65D5682818@yahoo.com>
References: <6D5AB4DD-16AC-44AD-8233-DF7C58F86034@yahoo.com>
	<443c240c0803112013s42f574e0vcc240185bc7a70e3@mail.gmail.com>
	<9680BC3D-B8F1-4DC5-BB19-5A65D5682818@yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <ea9161c50803131302rf356e8rfd28dde026f82f88@mail.gmail.com>

 I did something like this by setting up a Facebook Group and then
validating that the User was in that group.  If the user was not in the
group then I put up a  private beta page.

That way I collected session keys for people interested in the application
and sent them notifications when I was ready to go live.

Dave


On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:56 PM, S. Woodside <sbwoodside at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I considered both of those options, but I had problems.
>
> 1. Developers -- I'm going to have quite a few (maybe 30) people that
> I know privately testing the app, and I don't want to make them all
> developers, wouldn't that give them access to the app editing/
> settings etc.
>
> 2. Test users -- I tried this, but since my app developer user isn't
> a test user, I found that simple fbml like fb:name wouldn't work
> because normal users can't see test users and vice-versa. Their
> implementation of test users seems quite terrible.
>
> --simon
>
> --
> http://simonwoodside.com
>
>
> On Mar 11, 2008, at 11:13 PM, Christopher Bailey wrote:
>
> > An alternative is simply to make your app not publicly installable,
> > and to designate certain people as "developers" of the app.  You
> > can do this on the app's settings page on Facebook.  That way you
> > don't have to put code in your app that you have to then take back
> > out, etc.
> >
> >
> > I also tend to leverage the "test" users you can set up.  So, while
> > I'm doing my own testing (where only I am looking at the app, or a
> > small set of us), I set up some test users add them as friends,
> > have them add the app, etc., then go mark them as actual test
> > user's in Facebook, etc.  I designate these as "developers" of the
> > app, so they have access.
> >
> > On 3/11/08, S. Woodside <sbwoodside at yahoo.com> wrote: This is
> > something I just cooked up to allow me to restrict
> > temporarily who can access my app, based on an array of UIDs. It's
> > messy but works. Put at the top of your controller, at the end of
> > your filters.
> >
> >    # This filter is only until we open everything up
> >    before_filter do |c|
> >      acceptable_uids = ['594180515', '122612996']
> >      unless acceptable_uids.include? c.get_facebook_session.user.uid
> >        RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.debug "my UID = " +
> > c.get_facebook_session.user.uid + " but acceptable_uids = " +
> > acceptable_uids.to_s
> >        raise RuntimeError("This isn't going to work")
> >      end
> >    end
> >    def get_facebook_session
> >      @facebook_session
> >    end
> >
> >
> > If it deems the user unacceptable, it actually fails with:
> > NoMethodError (undefined method `RuntimeError' for
> > FacebookController:Class):
> >
> > I don't know why, I think it's got something to do with using a block
> > or something. However, it still does what it's supposed to do, which
> > is prevent anyone not on the list from seeing your app.
> >
> > --simon
> >
> >
> > --
> > http://simonwoodside.com
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Christopher Bailey
> > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > http://cobaltedge.com
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
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From digidigo at gmail.com  Fri Mar 14 15:38:26 2008
From: digidigo at gmail.com (David Clements)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:38:26 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker MQ now on RubyForge
Message-ID: <ea9161c50803141238l18916f59qed24517b69cc5a44@mail.gmail.com>

I don't know if anyone is using this but I just fixed a bunch of bugs, some
big ones, and moved this project to RubyForge SVN servers.

So you can get it here now:

script/plugin install
http://facebooker-mq.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/facebooker-mq/

This is working great for me on a couple of projects.

Here is the README

Updated: 3/14/2008

Purpose:
The purpose of FacebookerMQ is to provide an async method for performing
time consuming
Facebook API requests. The Facebook platform is very sensitive to long
running requests,
and as such it becomes important to offload some of these requests to a
background process.
As the name suggests this plugin relies on the facebooker api ( gem install
facebooker ).

Overview:

FacebookerMQ intercepts Facebooker calls into session.publish(method,
params) and saves all the relevant data
to the database.  This is inspired by the ar_mailer project which does the
same for ActionMailer.  In order
to process the queue you can setup a cron job to run script/runner
FacebookerMqRunner.work().


What you need:

1) script/plugin install
http://facebooker-mq.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/facebooker-mq/



2) You will need a migration to create the table that holds the messages.
You can think if this table as the queue

class CreateFacebookMessages < ActiveRecord::Migration
   def self.up
      create_table :facebook_messages do |t|
         t.column(:session_key, :string, :null => false)
         t.column(:expires, :string, :null => false, :default => "0")
         t.column(:uid, :integer, :null => false)
         t.column(:api_method, :string, :null => false)
         t.column(:params, :text, :null => false )     # Always a hash.
         t.column(:state, :string, :null => false, :default => 'new' )
         t.column(:send_after, :datetime, :null => false, :default =>
Time.at(0))  # Optional date time to wait until you send
         t.column( :last_send_attempt, :datetime  )
         t.column( :send_attempts, :integer, :default => 0 , :null => false
)
         t.column( :facebook_errors, :text, :default => "")
         t.column( :response_xml, :text, :default => "")
         t.timestamps
      end
   end

   def self.down
      drop_table :facebook_messages
   end
end

3) Cronjob or some other way to fire off  FacebookerMqRunner.work()


Misc:

Look in facebooker_session_override.rb and you will see all the api methods
that are currently offloaded to the queue.
This can be added to or removed from by calling Facebooker::
Session.async_method or  Facebooker::Session.sync_method

I am kinda hoping to get this pushed into the Facebooker source so that it
can be a config option.  If not I will setup
a rubyforge project and change the URL

This is a work in progress and any comments or code is totally welcome.  It
has been developed from a couple of projects
that I am currently working on.


TODO:

1) I think some of the options such as the max number of failure, which
methods to intercept and table name should be configurable.
2) I think that it would be good to work out some admin view of the queue.
3) Make sure that it works well with multiple runner instances.
4) Remove the need to run this within the RAILS_ENV
5) Create a gem like ar_mailer has.
6) Implement saving response and using a callback to do something with the
response.
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From shanev at gmail.com  Fri Mar 14 15:45:16 2008
From: shanev at gmail.com (Shane Vitarana)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:45:16 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker MQ now on RubyForge
In-Reply-To: <ea9161c50803141238l18916f59qed24517b69cc5a44@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ea9161c50803141238l18916f59qed24517b69cc5a44@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <4ab757a40803141245h323577aem6124615f05d5e25e@mail.gmail.com>

Nice work.  But would you run into issues with publishing feeds? Since
they have to be publish while the user is actively logged in now?

Shane

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:38 PM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know if anyone is using this but I just fixed a bunch of bugs, some
> big ones, and moved this project to RubyForge SVN servers.
>
> So you can get it here now:
>
>  script/plugin install
> http://facebooker-mq.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/facebooker-mq/
>
> This is working great for me on a couple of projects.
>
> Here is the README
>
> Updated: 3/14/2008
>
> Purpose:
> The purpose of FacebookerMQ is to provide an async method for performing
> time consuming
>  Facebook API requests. The Facebook platform is very sensitive to long
> running requests,
> and as such it becomes important to offload some of these requests to a
> background process.
> As the name suggests this plugin relies on the facebooker api ( gem install
> facebooker ).
>
> Overview:
>
> FacebookerMQ intercepts Facebooker calls into session.publish(method,
> params) and saves all the relevant data
> to the database.  This is inspired by the ar_mailer project which does the
> same for ActionMailer.  In order
>  to process the queue you can setup a cron job to run script/runner
> FacebookerMqRunner.work().
>
>  What you need:
>
> 1) script/plugin install
> http://facebooker-mq.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/facebooker-mq/
>
>
>
> 2) You will need a migration to create the table that holds the messages.
> You can think if this table as the queue
>
> class CreateFacebookMessages < ActiveRecord::Migration
>    def self.up
>       create_table :facebook_messages do |t|
>          t.column(:session_key, :string, :null => false)
>          t.column(:expires, :string, :null => false, :default => "0")
>           t.column(:uid, :integer, :null => false)
>          t.column(:api_method, :string, :null => false)
>          t.column(:params, :text, :null => false )     # Always a hash.
>          t.column(:state, :string, :null => false, :default => 'new' )
>           t.column(:send_after, :datetime, :null => false, :default =>
> Time.at(0))  # Optional date time to wait until you send
>          t.column( :last_send_attempt, :datetime  )
>          t.column( :send_attempts, :integer, :default => 0 , :null => false
> )
>           t.column( :facebook_errors, :text, :default => "")
>          t.column( :response_xml, :text, :default => "")
>          t.timestamps
>       end
>    end
>
>    def self.down
>        drop_table :facebook_messages
>    end
> end
>
> 3) Cronjob or some other way to fire off  FacebookerMqRunner.work()
>
>
> Misc:
>
> Look in facebooker_session_override.rb and you will see all the api methods
> that are currently offloaded to the queue.
>  This can be added to or removed from by calling
> Facebooker::Session.async_method or  Facebooker::Session.sync_method
>
> I am kinda hoping to get this pushed into the Facebooker source so that it
> can be a config option.  If not I will setup
>  a rubyforge project and change the URL
>
> This is a work in progress and any comments or code is totally welcome.  It
> has been developed from a couple of projects
> that I am currently working on.
>
>
> TODO:
>
> 1) I think some of the options such as the max number of failure, which
> methods to intercept and table name should be configurable.
> 2) I think that it would be good to work out some admin view of the queue.
> 3) Make sure that it works well with multiple runner instances.
>  4) Remove the need to run this within the RAILS_ENV
> 5) Create a gem like ar_mailer has.
> 6) Implement saving response and using a callback to do something with the
> response.
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>  Facebooker-talk mailing list
>  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
>



-- 
http://shanesbrain.net | http://crimsonjet.com | http://myfitbuddy.com

From digidigo at gmail.com  Fri Mar 14 15:47:20 2008
From: digidigo at gmail.com (David Clements)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:47:20 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker MQ now on RubyForge
In-Reply-To: <4ab757a40803141245h323577aem6124615f05d5e25e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ea9161c50803141238l18916f59qed24517b69cc5a44@mail.gmail.com>
	<4ab757a40803141245h323577aem6124615f05d5e25e@mail.gmail.com>
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That is interesting.  I haven't run into that.    But for me feeds get
updated within a minute or so , as I run the cron job every minute.
  Do you know how they detect that the user is logged in?


Dave

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Shane Vitarana <shanev at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nice work.  But would you run into issues with publishing feeds? Since
> they have to be publish while the user is actively logged in now?
>
> Shane
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:38 PM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I don't know if anyone is using this but I just fixed a bunch of bugs,
> some
> > big ones, and moved this project to RubyForge SVN servers.
> >
> > So you can get it here now:
> >
> >  script/plugin install
> > http://facebooker-mq.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/facebooker-mq/
> >
> > This is working great for me on a couple of projects.
> >
> > Here is the README
> >
> > Updated: 3/14/2008
> >
> > Purpose:
> > The purpose of FacebookerMQ is to provide an async method for performing
> > time consuming
> >  Facebook API requests. The Facebook platform is very sensitive to long
> > running requests,
> > and as such it becomes important to offload some of these requests to a
> > background process.
> > As the name suggests this plugin relies on the facebooker api ( gem
> install
> > facebooker ).
> >
> > Overview:
> >
> > FacebookerMQ intercepts Facebooker calls into session.publish(method,
> > params) and saves all the relevant data
> > to the database.  This is inspired by the ar_mailer project which does
> the
> > same for ActionMailer.  In order
> >  to process the queue you can setup a cron job to run script/runner
> > FacebookerMqRunner.work().
> >
> >  What you need:
> >
> > 1) script/plugin install
> > http://facebooker-mq.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/facebooker-mq/
> >
> >
> >
> > 2) You will need a migration to create the table that holds the
> messages.
> > You can think if this table as the queue
> >
> > class CreateFacebookMessages < ActiveRecord::Migration
> >    def self.up
> >       create_table :facebook_messages do |t|
> >          t.column(:session_key, :string, :null => false)
> >          t.column(:expires, :string, :null => false, :default => "0")
> >           t.column(:uid, :integer, :null => false)
> >          t.column(:api_method, :string, :null => false)
> >          t.column(:params, :text, :null => false )     # Always a hash.
> >          t.column(:state, :string, :null => false, :default => 'new' )
> >           t.column(:send_after, :datetime, :null => false, :default =>
> > Time.at(0))  # Optional date time to wait until you send
> >          t.column( :last_send_attempt, :datetime  )
> >          t.column( :send_attempts, :integer, :default => 0 , :null =>
> false
> > )
> >           t.column( :facebook_errors, :text, :default => "")
> >          t.column( :response_xml, :text, :default => "")
> >          t.timestamps
> >       end
> >    end
> >
> >    def self.down
> >        drop_table :facebook_messages
> >    end
> > end
> >
> > 3) Cronjob or some other way to fire off  FacebookerMqRunner.work()
> >
> >
> > Misc:
> >
> > Look in facebooker_session_override.rb and you will see all the api
> methods
> > that are currently offloaded to the queue.
> >  This can be added to or removed from by calling
> > Facebooker::Session.async_method or  Facebooker::Session.sync_method
> >
> > I am kinda hoping to get this pushed into the Facebooker source so that
> it
> > can be a config option.  If not I will setup
> >  a rubyforge project and change the URL
> >
> > This is a work in progress and any comments or code is totally welcome.
>  It
> > has been developed from a couple of projects
> > that I am currently working on.
> >
> >
> > TODO:
> >
> > 1) I think some of the options such as the max number of failure, which
> > methods to intercept and table name should be configurable.
> > 2) I think that it would be good to work out some admin view of the
> queue.
> > 3) Make sure that it works well with multiple runner instances.
> >  4) Remove the need to run this within the RAILS_ENV
> > 5) Create a gem like ar_mailer has.
> > 6) Implement saving response and using a callback to do something with
> the
> > response.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> >  Facebooker-talk mailing list
> >  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> >  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> http://shanesbrain.net | http://crimsonjet.com | http://myfitbuddy.com
>
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From shanev at gmail.com  Fri Mar 14 15:57:05 2008
From: shanev at gmail.com (Shane Vitarana)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:57:05 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker MQ now on RubyForge
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Not sure how they do it.  I think it should be fine if it is run every
minute though.

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:47 PM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:
> That is interesting.  I haven't run into that.    But for me feeds get
> updated within a minute or so , as I run the cron job every minute.
>   Do you know how they detect that the user is logged in?
>
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Shane Vitarana <shanev at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Nice work.  But would you run into issues with publishing feeds? Since
> > they have to be publish while the user is actively logged in now?
> >
> > Shane
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:38 PM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > I don't know if anyone is using this but I just fixed a bunch of bugs,
> some
> > > big ones, and moved this project to RubyForge SVN servers.
> > >
> > > So you can get it here now:
> > >
> > >  script/plugin install
> > > http://facebooker-mq.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/facebooker-mq/
> > >
> > > This is working great for me on a couple of projects.
> > >
> > > Here is the README
> > >
> > > Updated: 3/14/2008
> > >
> > > Purpose:
> > > The purpose of FacebookerMQ is to provide an async method for performing
> > > time consuming
> > >  Facebook API requests. The Facebook platform is very sensitive to long
> > > running requests,
> > > and as such it becomes important to offload some of these requests to a
> > > background process.
> > > As the name suggests this plugin relies on the facebooker api ( gem
> install
> > > facebooker ).
> > >
> > > Overview:
> > >
> > > FacebookerMQ intercepts Facebooker calls into session.publish(method,
> > > params) and saves all the relevant data
> > > to the database.  This is inspired by the ar_mailer project which does
> the
> > > same for ActionMailer.  In order
> > >  to process the queue you can setup a cron job to run script/runner
> > > FacebookerMqRunner.work().
> > >
> > >  What you need:
> > >
> > > 1) script/plugin install
> > > http://facebooker-mq.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/facebooker-mq/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 2) You will need a migration to create the table that holds the
> messages.
> > > You can think if this table as the queue
> > >
> > > class CreateFacebookMessages < ActiveRecord::Migration
> > >    def self.up
> > >       create_table :facebook_messages do |t|
> > >          t.column(:session_key, :string, :null => false)
> > >          t.column(:expires, :string, :null => false, :default => "0")
> > >           t.column(:uid, :integer, :null => false)
> > >          t.column(:api_method, :string, :null => false)
> > >          t.column(:params, :text, :null => false )     # Always a hash.
> > >          t.column(:state, :string, :null => false, :default => 'new' )
> > >           t.column(:send_after, :datetime, :null => false, :default =>
> > > Time.at(0))  # Optional date time to wait until you send
> > >          t.column( :last_send_attempt, :datetime  )
> > >          t.column( :send_attempts, :integer, :default => 0 , :null =>
> false
> > > )
> > >           t.column( :facebook_errors, :text, :default => "")
> > >          t.column( :response_xml, :text, :default => "")
> > >          t.timestamps
> > >       end
> > >    end
> > >
> > >    def self.down
> > >        drop_table :facebook_messages
> > >    end
> > > end
> > >
> > > 3) Cronjob or some other way to fire off  FacebookerMqRunner.work()
> > >
> > >
> > > Misc:
> > >
> > > Look in facebooker_session_override.rb and you will see all the api
> methods
> > > that are currently offloaded to the queue.
> > >  This can be added to or removed from by calling
> > > Facebooker::Session.async_method or  Facebooker::Session.sync_method
> > >
> > > I am kinda hoping to get this pushed into the Facebooker source so that
> it
> > > can be a config option.  If not I will setup
> > >  a rubyforge project and change the URL
> > >
> > > This is a work in progress and any comments or code is totally welcome.
> It
> > > has been developed from a couple of projects
> > > that I am currently working on.
> > >
> > >
> > > TODO:
> > >
> > > 1) I think some of the options such as the max number of failure, which
> > > methods to intercept and table name should be configurable.
> > > 2) I think that it would be good to work out some admin view of the
> queue.
> > > 3) Make sure that it works well with multiple runner instances.
> > >  4) Remove the need to run this within the RAILS_ENV
> > > 5) Create a gem like ar_mailer has.
> > > 6) Implement saving response and using a callback to do something with
> the
> > > response.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > >  Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > >  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > >  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > http://shanesbrain.net | http://crimsonjet.com | http://myfitbuddy.com
> >
>
>



-- 
http://shanesbrain.net | http://crimsonjet.com | http://myfitbuddy.com

From digidigo at gmail.com  Fri Mar 14 15:59:35 2008
From: digidigo at gmail.com (David Clements)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:59:35 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker MQ now on RubyForge
In-Reply-To: <4ab757a40803141257k63be78dewb0e54872523d9581@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ea9161c50803141238l18916f59qed24517b69cc5a44@mail.gmail.com>
	<4ab757a40803141245h323577aem6124615f05d5e25e@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <ea9161c50803141259y735c3c64y50e1ac53cc1fa4d7@mail.gmail.com>

Yeah,  main reason is to not get hung up during the request cycle talking to
facebook api.  I need to better detect errors though so that I can see if
Facebook is denying my request.


Dave


On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Shane Vitarana <shanev at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not sure how they do it.  I think it should be fine if it is run every
> minute though.
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:47 PM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > That is interesting.  I haven't run into that.    But for me feeds get
> > updated within a minute or so , as I run the cron job every minute.
> >   Do you know how they detect that the user is logged in?
> >
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Shane Vitarana <shanev at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > Nice work.  But would you run into issues with publishing feeds? Since
> > > they have to be publish while the user is actively logged in now?
> > >
> > > Shane
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:38 PM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > I don't know if anyone is using this but I just fixed a bunch of
> bugs,
> > some
> > > > big ones, and moved this project to RubyForge SVN servers.
> > > >
> > > > So you can get it here now:
> > > >
> > > >  script/plugin install
> > > > http://facebooker-mq.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/facebooker-mq/
> > > >
> > > > This is working great for me on a couple of projects.
> > > >
> > > > Here is the README
> > > >
> > > > Updated: 3/14/2008
> > > >
> > > > Purpose:
> > > > The purpose of FacebookerMQ is to provide an async method for
> performing
> > > > time consuming
> > > >  Facebook API requests. The Facebook platform is very sensitive to
> long
> > > > running requests,
> > > > and as such it becomes important to offload some of these requests
> to a
> > > > background process.
> > > > As the name suggests this plugin relies on the facebooker api ( gem
> > install
> > > > facebooker ).
> > > >
> > > > Overview:
> > > >
> > > > FacebookerMQ intercepts Facebooker calls into session.publish
> (method,
> > > > params) and saves all the relevant data
> > > > to the database.  This is inspired by the ar_mailer project which
> does
> > the
> > > > same for ActionMailer.  In order
> > > >  to process the queue you can setup a cron job to run script/runner
> > > > FacebookerMqRunner.work().
> > > >
> > > >  What you need:
> > > >
> > > > 1) script/plugin install
> > > > http://facebooker-mq.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/facebooker-mq/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 2) You will need a migration to create the table that holds the
> > messages.
> > > > You can think if this table as the queue
> > > >
> > > > class CreateFacebookMessages < ActiveRecord::Migration
> > > >    def self.up
> > > >       create_table :facebook_messages do |t|
> > > >          t.column(:session_key, :string, :null => false)
> > > >          t.column(:expires, :string, :null => false, :default =>
> "0")
> > > >           t.column(:uid, :integer, :null => false)
> > > >          t.column(:api_method, :string, :null => false)
> > > >          t.column(:params, :text, :null => false )     # Always a
> hash.
> > > >          t.column(:state, :string, :null => false, :default => 'new'
> )
> > > >           t.column(:send_after, :datetime, :null => false, :default
> =>
> > > > Time.at(0))  # Optional date time to wait until you send
> > > >          t.column( :last_send_attempt, :datetime  )
> > > >          t.column( :send_attempts, :integer, :default => 0 , :null
> =>
> > false
> > > > )
> > > >           t.column( :facebook_errors, :text, :default => "")
> > > >          t.column( :response_xml, :text, :default => "")
> > > >          t.timestamps
> > > >       end
> > > >    end
> > > >
> > > >    def self.down
> > > >        drop_table :facebook_messages
> > > >    end
> > > > end
> > > >
> > > > 3) Cronjob or some other way to fire off  FacebookerMqRunner.work()
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Misc:
> > > >
> > > > Look in facebooker_session_override.rb and you will see all the api
> > methods
> > > > that are currently offloaded to the queue.
> > > >  This can be added to or removed from by calling
> > > > Facebooker::Session.async_method or  Facebooker::Session.sync_method
> > > >
> > > > I am kinda hoping to get this pushed into the Facebooker source so
> that
> > it
> > > > can be a config option.  If not I will setup
> > > >  a rubyforge project and change the URL
> > > >
> > > > This is a work in progress and any comments or code is totally
> welcome.
> > It
> > > > has been developed from a couple of projects
> > > > that I am currently working on.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > TODO:
> > > >
> > > > 1) I think some of the options such as the max number of failure,
> which
> > > > methods to intercept and table name should be configurable.
> > > > 2) I think that it would be good to work out some admin view of the
> > queue.
> > > > 3) Make sure that it works well with multiple runner instances.
> > > >  4) Remove the need to run this within the RAILS_ENV
> > > > 5) Create a gem like ar_mailer has.
> > > > 6) Implement saving response and using a callback to do something
> with
> > the
> > > > response.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > >  Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > > >  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > > >  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > http://shanesbrain.net | http://crimsonjet.com | http://myfitbuddy.com
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> http://shanesbrain.net | http://crimsonjet.com | http://myfitbuddy.com
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From mmangino at elevatedrails.com  Fri Mar 14 16:14:13 2008
From: mmangino at elevatedrails.com (Mike Mangino)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:14:13 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker updates
Message-ID: <3945EF55-EBF0-4153-A5C7-10CE7710C62A@elevatedrails.com>

I just went through and cleaned out most of the bugs and patches. I  
also added a facebooker.js file that implements enough of prototype to  
do $() and link_to_remote with :update and remote_form_for with :update

Let me know if you run into any issues with it.

Mike

--
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http://www.elevatedrails.com




From chris at cobaltedge.com  Fri Mar 14 16:22:18 2008
From: chris at cobaltedge.com (Christopher Bailey)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:22:18 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker MQ now on RubyForge
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David, this seems like a great idea.  I've been using Spawn to kick off
various things like this in my code.  It has worked well so far, and
alleviates the need for a cron job.

As for the publishing thing, I wonder about that.  Does the user truly have
to be interactively logged in, or can you simply use their infinite session
key?

On 3/14/08, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yeah,  main reason is to not get hung up during the request cycle talking
> to facebook api.  I need to better detect errors though so that I can see if
> Facebook is denying my request.
>
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Shane Vitarana <shanev at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Not sure how they do it.  I think it should be fine if it is run every
> > minute though.
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:47 PM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > That is interesting.  I haven't run into that.    But for me feeds get
> > > updated within a minute or so , as I run the cron job every minute.
> > >   Do you know how they detect that the user is logged in?
> > >
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Shane Vitarana <shanev at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > Nice work.  But would you run into issues with publishing feeds?
> > Since
> > > > they have to be publish while the user is actively logged in now?
> > > >
> > > > Shane
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:38 PM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > > I don't know if anyone is using this but I just fixed a bunch of
> > bugs,
> > > some
> > > > > big ones, and moved this project to RubyForge SVN servers.
> > > > >
> > > > > So you can get it here now:
> > > > >
> > > > >  script/plugin install
> > > > > http://facebooker-mq.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/facebooker-mq/
> > > > >
> > > > > This is working great for me on a couple of projects.
> > > > >
> > > > > Here is the README
> > > > >
> > > > > Updated: 3/14/2008
> > > > >
> > > > > Purpose:
> > > > > The purpose of FacebookerMQ is to provide an async method for
> > performing
> > > > > time consuming
> > > > >  Facebook API requests. The Facebook platform is very sensitive to
> > long
> > > > > running requests,
> > > > > and as such it becomes important to offload some of these requests
> > to a
> > > > > background process.
> > > > > As the name suggests this plugin relies on the facebooker api (
> > gem
> > > install
> > > > > facebooker ).
> > > > >
> > > > > Overview:
> > > > >
> > > > > FacebookerMQ intercepts Facebooker calls into session.publish
> > (method,
> > > > > params) and saves all the relevant data
> > > > > to the database.  This is inspired by the ar_mailer project which
> > does
> > > the
> > > > > same for ActionMailer.  In order
> > > > >  to process the queue you can setup a cron job to run
> > script/runner
> > > > > FacebookerMqRunner.work().
> > > > >
> > > > >  What you need:
> > > > >
> > > > > 1) script/plugin install
> > > > > http://facebooker-mq.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/facebooker-mq/
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > 2) You will need a migration to create the table that holds the
> > > messages.
> > > > > You can think if this table as the queue
> > > > >
> > > > > class CreateFacebookMessages < ActiveRecord::Migration
> > > > >    def self.up
> > > > >       create_table :facebook_messages do |t|
> > > > >          t.column(:session_key, :string, :null => false)
> > > > >          t.column(:expires, :string, :null => false, :default =>
> > "0")
> > > > >           t.column(:uid, :integer, :null => false)
> > > > >          t.column(:api_method, :string, :null => false)
> > > > >          t.column(:params, :text, :null => false )     # Always a
> > hash.
> > > > >          t.column(:state, :string, :null => false, :default =>
> > 'new' )
> > > > >           t.column(:send_after, :datetime, :null => false,
> > :default =>
> > > > > Time.at(0))  # Optional date time to wait until you send
> > > > >          t.column( :last_send_attempt, :datetime  )
> > > > >          t.column( :send_attempts, :integer, :default => 0 , :null
> > =>
> > > false
> > > > > )
> > > > >           t.column( :facebook_errors, :text, :default => "")
> > > > >          t.column( :response_xml, :text, :default => "")
> > > > >          t.timestamps
> > > > >       end
> > > > >    end
> > > > >
> > > > >    def self.down
> > > > >        drop_table :facebook_messages
> > > > >    end
> > > > > end
> > > > >
> > > > > 3) Cronjob or some other way to fire off  FacebookerMqRunner.work
> > ()
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Misc:
> > > > >
> > > > > Look in facebooker_session_override.rb and you will see all the
> > api
> > > methods
> > > > > that are currently offloaded to the queue.
> > > > >  This can be added to or removed from by calling
> > > > > Facebooker::Session.async_method or  Facebooker::
> > Session.sync_method
> > > > >
> > > > > I am kinda hoping to get this pushed into the Facebooker source so
> > that
> > > it
> > > > > can be a config option.  If not I will setup
> > > > >  a rubyforge project and change the URL
> > > > >
> > > > > This is a work in progress and any comments or code is totally
> > welcome.
> > > It
> > > > > has been developed from a couple of projects
> > > > > that I am currently working on.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > TODO:
> > > > >
> > > > > 1) I think some of the options such as the max number of failure,
> > which
> > > > > methods to intercept and table name should be configurable.
> > > > > 2) I think that it would be good to work out some admin view of
> > the
> > > queue.
> > > > > 3) Make sure that it works well with multiple runner instances.
> > > > >  4) Remove the need to run this within the RAILS_ENV
> > > > > 5) Create a gem like ar_mailer has.
> > > > > 6) Implement saving response and using a callback to do something
> > with
> > > the
> > > > > response.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > >  Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > > > >  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > > > >  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > http://shanesbrain.net | http://crimsonjet.com |
> > http://myfitbuddy.com
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > http://shanesbrain.net | http://crimsonjet.com | http://myfitbuddy.com
> >
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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From digidigo at gmail.com  Fri Mar 14 16:24:52 2008
From: digidigo at gmail.com (David Clements)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:24:52 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker updates
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Sweet!! I was working on this as well.   I'll give it a try


Thanks Mike,
Dave

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Mike Mangino <mmangino at elevatedrails.com>
wrote:

> I just went through and cleaned out most of the bugs and patches. I
> also added a facebooker.js file that implements enough of prototype to
> do $() and link_to_remote with :update and remote_form_for with :update
>
> Let me know if you run into any issues with it.
>
> Mike
>
> --
> Mike Mangino
> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>
>
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From digidigo at gmail.com  Fri Mar 14 16:29:20 2008
From: digidigo at gmail.com (David Clements)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:29:20 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker updates
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Hey Mike,

Did you have any success getting new Ajax.Request to work?  This is the one
that gets generated when you do an link_to_remote without the update =>
div_id.

I could have sworn during some testing I did a few weeks ago that this would
work if you wrapped your return RJS in <script> tags.  But then I tried
again and Facebook just politely deleted my whole rjs response.

Dave

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:24 PM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sweet!! I was working on this as well.   I'll give it a try
>
>
> Thanks Mike,
> Dave
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Mike Mangino <mmangino at elevatedrails.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I just went through and cleaned out most of the bugs and patches. I
> > also added a facebooker.js file that implements enough of prototype to
> > do $() and link_to_remote with :update and remote_form_for with :update
> >
> > Let me know if you run into any issues with it.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > --
> > Mike Mangino
> > http://www.elevatedrails.com
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> >
>
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From digidigo at gmail.com  Fri Mar 14 16:40:21 2008
From: digidigo at gmail.com (David Clements)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:40:21 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker MQ now on RubyForge
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Christopher Bailey <chris at cobaltedge.com>
wrote:

> David, this seems like a great idea.  I've been using Spawn to kick off
> various things like this in my code.  It has worked well so far, and
> alleviates the need for a cron job.
>
> As for the publishing thing, I wonder about that.  Does the user truly
> have to be interactively logged in, or can you simply use their infinite
> session key?
>

Yeah, I was using spawn for awhile, it worked great.  I have an unfounded
aversion to forking lots of processes.  And since my apps are going to go
viral and I am going to have 10 million users by the end of the day, I
figured I should build something more robust. ;)




>
>
> On 3/14/08, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Yeah,  main reason is to not get hung up during the request cycle
> > talking to facebook api.  I need to better detect errors though so that I
> > can see if Facebook is denying my request.
> >
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Shane Vitarana <shanev at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Not sure how they do it.  I think it should be fine if it is run every
> > > minute though.
> > >
> > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:47 PM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > That is interesting.  I haven't run into that.    But for me feeds
> > > get
> > > > updated within a minute or so , as I run the cron job every minute.
> > > >   Do you know how they detect that the user is logged in?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Dave
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Shane Vitarana <shanev at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > > Nice work.  But would you run into issues with publishing feeds?
> > > Since
> > > > > they have to be publish while the user is actively logged in now?
> > > > >
> > > > > Shane
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:38 PM, David Clements <
> > > digidigo at gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > > I don't know if anyone is using this but I just fixed a bunch of
> > > bugs,
> > > > some
> > > > > > big ones, and moved this project to RubyForge SVN servers.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So you can get it here now:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  script/plugin install
> > > > > > http://facebooker-mq.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/facebooker-mq/
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This is working great for me on a couple of projects.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Here is the README
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Updated: 3/14/2008
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Purpose:
> > > > > > The purpose of FacebookerMQ is to provide an async method for
> > > performing
> > > > > > time consuming
> > > > > >  Facebook API requests. The Facebook platform is very sensitive
> > > to long
> > > > > > running requests,
> > > > > > and as such it becomes important to offload some of these
> > > requests to a
> > > > > > background process.
> > > > > > As the name suggests this plugin relies on the facebooker api (
> > > gem
> > > > install
> > > > > > facebooker ).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Overview:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > FacebookerMQ intercepts Facebooker calls into session.publish
> > > (method,
> > > > > > params) and saves all the relevant data
> > > > > > to the database.  This is inspired by the ar_mailer project
> > > which does
> > > > the
> > > > > > same for ActionMailer.  In order
> > > > > >  to process the queue you can setup a cron job to run
> > > script/runner
> > > > > > FacebookerMqRunner.work().
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  What you need:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 1) script/plugin install
> > > > > > http://facebooker-mq.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/facebooker-mq/
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 2) You will need a migration to create the table that holds the
> > > > messages.
> > > > > > You can think if this table as the queue
> > > > > >
> > > > > > class CreateFacebookMessages < ActiveRecord::Migration
> > > > > >    def self.up
> > > > > >       create_table :facebook_messages do |t|
> > > > > >          t.column(:session_key, :string, :null => false)
> > > > > >          t.column(:expires, :string, :null => false, :default =>
> > > "0")
> > > > > >           t.column(:uid, :integer, :null => false)
> > > > > >          t.column(:api_method, :string, :null => false)
> > > > > >          t.column(:params, :text, :null => false )     # Always
> > > a hash.
> > > > > >          t.column(:state, :string, :null => false, :default =>
> > > 'new' )
> > > > > >           t.column(:send_after, :datetime, :null => false,
> > > :default =>
> > > > > > Time.at(0))  # Optional date time to wait until you send
> > > > > >          t.column( :last_send_attempt, :datetime  )
> > > > > >          t.column( :send_attempts, :integer, :default => 0 ,
> > > :null =>
> > > > false
> > > > > > )
> > > > > >           t.column( :facebook_errors, :text, :default => "")
> > > > > >          t.column( :response_xml, :text, :default => "")
> > > > > >          t.timestamps
> > > > > >       end
> > > > > >    end
> > > > > >
> > > > > >    def self.down
> > > > > >        drop_table :facebook_messages
> > > > > >    end
> > > > > > end
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 3) Cronjob or some other way to fire off
> > > FacebookerMqRunner.work()
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Misc:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Look in facebooker_session_override.rb and you will see all the
> > > api
> > > > methods
> > > > > > that are currently offloaded to the queue.
> > > > > >  This can be added to or removed from by calling
> > > > > > Facebooker::Session.async_method or  Facebooker::
> > > Session.sync_method
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I am kinda hoping to get this pushed into the Facebooker source
> > > so that
> > > > it
> > > > > > can be a config option.  If not I will setup
> > > > > >  a rubyforge project and change the URL
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This is a work in progress and any comments or code is totally
> > > welcome.
> > > > It
> > > > > > has been developed from a couple of projects
> > > > > > that I am currently working on.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > TODO:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 1) I think some of the options such as the max number of
> > > failure, which
> > > > > > methods to intercept and table name should be configurable.
> > > > > > 2) I think that it would be good to work out some admin view of
> > > the
> > > > queue.
> > > > > > 3) Make sure that it works well with multiple runner instances.
> > > > > >  4) Remove the need to run this within the RAILS_ENV
> > > > > > 5) Create a gem like ar_mailer has.
> > > > > > 6) Implement saving response and using a callback to do
> > > something with
> > > > the
> > > > > > response.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > > >  Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > > > > >  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > > > > >  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > http://shanesbrain.net | http://crimsonjet.com |
> > > http://myfitbuddy.com
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > http://shanesbrain.net | http://crimsonjet.com | http://myfitbuddy.com
> > >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Christopher Bailey
> Cobalt Edge LLC
> http://cobaltedge.com
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From chris at cobaltedge.com  Fri Mar 14 16:53:40 2008
From: chris at cobaltedge.com (Christopher Bailey)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:53:40 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker MQ now on RubyForge
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On 3/14/08, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Christopher Bailey <chris at cobaltedge.com>
> wrote:
>
> > David, this seems like a great idea.  I've been using Spawn to kick off
> > various things like this in my code.  It has worked well so far, and
> > alleviates the need for a cron job.
> >
> > As for the publishing thing, I wonder about that.  Does the user truly
> > have to be interactively logged in, or can you simply use their infinite
> > session key?
> >
>
> Yeah, I was using spawn for awhile, it worked great.  I have an unfounded
> aversion to forking lots of processes.  And since my apps are going to go
> viral and I am going to have 10 million users by the end of the day, I
> figured I should build something more robust. ;)
>


No doubt!  :)  Ya, my take was actually that I'll use Workling, so as to
transition to something like Starling once load requires it.  But for now,
Spawn was the simplest and lightest solution to put in.  Do note that Spawn
can fork or it can use threads, although the threads variant is a bit more
sketchy due to ActiveRecord and so on (apparently - I haven't tried using
the threads version yet, as I figured once I got to high enough loads where
that mattered, I'd switch to Starling).
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From digidigo at gmail.com  Fri Mar 14 17:02:07 2008
From: digidigo at gmail.com (David Clements)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:02:07 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker MQ now on RubyForge
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Christopher Bailey <chris at cobaltedge.com>
wrote:

> On 3/14/08, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Christopher Bailey <chris at cobaltedge.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > David, this seems like a great idea.  I've been using Spawn to kick
> > > off various things like this in my code.  It has worked well so far, and
> > > alleviates the need for a cron job.
> > >
> > > As for the publishing thing, I wonder about that.  Does the user truly
> > > have to be interactively logged in, or can you simply use their infinite
> > > session key?
> > >
> >
> > Yeah, I was using spawn for awhile, it worked great.  I have an
> > unfounded aversion to forking lots of processes.  And since my apps are
> > going to go viral and I am going to have 10 million users by the end of the
> > day, I figured I should build something more robust. ;)
> >
>
>
> No doubt!  :)  Ya, my take was actually that I'll use Workling, so as to
> transition to something like Starling once load requires it.  But for now,
> Spawn was the simplest and lightest solution to put in.  Do note that Spawn
> can fork or it can use threads, although the threads variant is a bit more
> sketchy due to ActiveRecord and so on (apparently - I haven't tried using
> the threads version yet, as I figured once I got to high enough loads where
> that mattered, I'd switch to Starling).
>

I am a short and simple kind of guy and like to understand as much code as I
can that I have in production.  I like spawn for sure and probably should
get over my fear of lots of processes.  The thread thing scared me as well,
as I would have to dive too far into the rails code to know how that works.

I haven't looked at starling yet, and haven't even heard of workling.

Dave

>
>
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From chris at cobaltedge.com  Fri Mar 14 17:06:47 2008
From: chris at cobaltedge.com (Christopher Bailey)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:06:47 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker MQ now on RubyForge
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Actually, I think you are right to look beyond Spawn for something that you
will release publicly, or that is a standard part of Facebooker, given the
ease with which a Facebook application's traffic can go through the roof.
 If people do an even mildly popular Facebook app, they are going to want
something other than forking, or they are going to have to beef up the
machines they run on, etc.

As for Workling, it is a wrapper around things like Starling, Spawn, etc.,
so that you can swap out different async processing libraries.  Check it out
from this blog post about it:
http://playtype.net/past/2008/2/6/starling_and_asynchrous_tasks_in_ruby_on_rails/

On 3/14/08, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Christopher Bailey <chris at cobaltedge.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 3/14/08, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Christopher Bailey <
> > > chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > David, this seems like a great idea.  I've been using Spawn to kick
> > > > off various things like this in my code.  It has worked well so far, and
> > > > alleviates the need for a cron job.
> > > >
> > > > As for the publishing thing, I wonder about that.  Does the user
> > > > truly have to be interactively logged in, or can you simply use their
> > > > infinite session key?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Yeah, I was using spawn for awhile, it worked great.  I have an
> > > unfounded aversion to forking lots of processes.  And since my apps are
> > > going to go viral and I am going to have 10 million users by the end of the
> > > day, I figured I should build something more robust. ;)
> > >
> >
> >
> > No doubt!  :)  Ya, my take was actually that I'll use Workling, so as to
> > transition to something like Starling once load requires it.  But for now,
> > Spawn was the simplest and lightest solution to put in.  Do note that Spawn
> > can fork or it can use threads, although the threads variant is a bit more
> > sketchy due to ActiveRecord and so on (apparently - I haven't tried using
> > the threads version yet, as I figured once I got to high enough loads where
> > that mattered, I'd switch to Starling).
> >
>
> I am a short and simple kind of guy and like to understand as much code as
> I can that I have in production.  I like spawn for sure and probably should
> get over my fear of lots of processes.  The thread thing scared me as well,
> as I would have to dive too far into the rails code to know how that works.
>
> I haven't looked at starling yet, and haven't even heard of workling.
>
> Dave
>
> >
> >
> >
>
>


-- 
Christopher Bailey
Cobalt Edge LLC
http://cobaltedge.com
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From mniessner at elevatedrails.com  Fri Mar 14 17:07:11 2008
From: mniessner at elevatedrails.com (Michael Niessner)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:07:11 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker MQ now on RubyForge
In-Reply-To: <ea9161c50803141402w73f0700asc86f29c4f0eaf138@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ea9161c50803141238l18916f59qed24517b69cc5a44@mail.gmail.com>
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Starling is pretty nice. It is just over 1000 lines including comments.

Michael

On Mar 14, 2008, at 4:02 PM, David Clements wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Christopher Bailey <chris at cobaltedge.com 
> > wrote:
> On 3/14/08, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Christopher Bailey <chris at cobaltedge.com 
> > wrote:
> David, this seems like a great idea.  I've been using Spawn to kick  
> off various things like this in my code.  It has worked well so far,  
> and alleviates the need for a cron job.
>
>
> As for the publishing thing, I wonder about that.  Does the user  
> truly have to be interactively logged in, or can you simply use  
> their infinite session key?
>
> Yeah, I was using spawn for awhile, it worked great.  I have an  
> unfounded aversion to forking lots of processes.  And since my apps  
> are going to go viral and I am going to have 10 million users by the  
> end of the day, I figured I should build something more robust. ;)
>
>
> No doubt!  :)  Ya, my take was actually that I'll use Workling, so  
> as to transition to something like Starling once load requires it.   
> But for now, Spawn was the simplest and lightest solution to put  
> in.  Do note that Spawn can fork or it can use threads, although the  
> threads variant is a bit more sketchy due to ActiveRecord and so on  
> (apparently - I haven't tried using the threads version yet, as I  
> figured once I got to high enough loads where that mattered, I'd  
> switch to Starling).
>
> I am a short and simple kind of guy and like to understand as much  
> code as I can that I have in production.  I like spawn for sure and  
> probably should get over my fear of lots of processes.  The thread  
> thing scared me as well,  as I would have to dive too far into the  
> rails code to know how that works.
>
> I haven't looked at starling yet, and haven't even heard of workling.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk

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From digidigo at gmail.com  Fri Mar 14 17:11:57 2008
From: digidigo at gmail.com (David Clements)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:11:57 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker MQ now on RubyForge
In-Reply-To: <4B3E0563-85C5-4AFC-8D28-6DB2328732C2@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Michael Niessner <
mniessner at elevatedrails.com> wrote:

> Starling is pretty nice. It is just over 1000 lines including comments.
>

That is cool.  I'll take a look.  Then I won't feel like I am at its mercy,
like I felt in the backgroundrb days. Those were painful days,  although I
understand it has been rewritten as well.

Dave


>
> Michael
>
> On Mar 14, 2008, at 4:02 PM, David Clements wrote:
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Christopher Bailey <chris at cobaltedge.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 3/14/08, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Christopher Bailey <
> > > chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > David, this seems like a great idea.  I've been using Spawn to kick
> > > > off various things like this in my code.  It has worked well so far, and
> > > > alleviates the need for a cron job.
> > > >
> > > > As for the publishing thing, I wonder about that.  Does the user
> > > > truly have to be interactively logged in, or can you simply use their
> > > > infinite session key?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Yeah, I was using spawn for awhile, it worked great.  I have an
> > > unfounded aversion to forking lots of processes.  And since my apps are
> > > going to go viral and I am going to have 10 million users by the end of the
> > > day, I figured I should build something more robust. ;)
> > >
> >
> >
> > No doubt!  :)  Ya, my take was actually that I'll use Workling, so as to
> > transition to something like Starling once load requires it.  But for now,
> > Spawn was the simplest and lightest solution to put in.  Do note that Spawn
> > can fork or it can use threads, although the threads variant is a bit more
> > sketchy due to ActiveRecord and so on (apparently - I haven't tried using
> > the threads version yet, as I figured once I got to high enough loads where
> > that mattered, I'd switch to Starling).
> >
>
> I am a short and simple kind of guy and like to understand as much code as
> I can that I have in production.  I like spawn for sure and probably should
> get over my fear of lots of processes.  The thread thing scared me as well,
> as I would have to dive too far into the rails code to know how that works.
>
> I haven't looked at starling yet, and haven't even heard of workling.
>
> Dave
>
> >
> >
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
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From wbsmith83 at gmail.com  Fri Mar 14 17:23:58 2008
From: wbsmith83 at gmail.com (Brian Smith)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:23:58 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker MQ now on RubyForge
In-Reply-To: <4B3E0563-85C5-4AFC-8D28-6DB2328732C2@gmail.com>
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And it speaks memcache :D

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Michael Niessner <
mniessner at elevatedrails.com> wrote:

> Starling is pretty nice. It is just over 1000 lines including comments.
> Michael
>
> On Mar 14, 2008, at 4:02 PM, David Clements wrote:
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Christopher Bailey <chris at cobaltedge.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On 3/14/08, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Christopher Bailey <
> > > chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > David, this seems like a great idea.  I've been using Spawn to kick
> > > > off various things like this in my code.  It has worked well so far, and
> > > > alleviates the need for a cron job.
> > > >
> > > > As for the publishing thing, I wonder about that.  Does the user
> > > > truly have to be interactively logged in, or can you simply use their
> > > > infinite session key?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Yeah, I was using spawn for awhile, it worked great.  I have an
> > > unfounded aversion to forking lots of processes.  And since my apps are
> > > going to go viral and I am going to have 10 million users by the end of the
> > > day, I figured I should build something more robust. ;)
> > >
> >
> >
> > No doubt!  :)  Ya, my take was actually that I'll use Workling, so as to
> > transition to something like Starling once load requires it.  But for now,
> > Spawn was the simplest and lightest solution to put in.  Do note that Spawn
> > can fork or it can use threads, although the threads variant is a bit more
> > sketchy due to ActiveRecord and so on (apparently - I haven't tried using
> > the threads version yet, as I figured once I got to high enough loads where
> > that mattered, I'd switch to Starling).
> >
>
> I am a short and simple kind of guy and like to understand as much code as
> I can that I have in production.  I like spawn for sure and probably should
> get over my fear of lots of processes.  The thread thing scared me as well,
> as I would have to dive too far into the rails code to know how that works.
>
> I haven't looked at starling yet, and haven't even heard of workling.
>
> Dave
>
> >
> >
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
>
>
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From mmangino at elevatedrails.com  Fri Mar 14 17:46:12 2008
From: mmangino at elevatedrails.com (Mike Mangino)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:46:12 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker updates
In-Reply-To: <ea9161c50803141329j58bbcb39u83fd953bb463f7f4@mail.gmail.com>
References: <3945EF55-EBF0-4153-A5C7-10CE7710C62A@elevatedrails.com>
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Not directly. My version of it returns the response as JSON. Facebook  
doesn't give any means of executing javascript, so none of the RJS  
type features will work.

Mike

On Mar 14, 2008, at 3:29 PM, David Clements wrote:

> Hey Mike,
>
> Did you have any success getting new Ajax.Request to work?  This is  
> the one that gets generated when you do an link_to_remote without  
> the update => div_id.
>
> I could have sworn during some testing I did a few weeks ago that  
> this would work if you wrapped your return RJS in <script> tags.   
> But then I tried again and Facebook just politely deleted my whole  
> rjs response.
>
> Dave
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:24 PM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> Sweet!! I was working on this as well.   I'll give it a try
>
>
> Thanks Mike,
> Dave
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Mike Mangino <mmangino at elevatedrails.com 
> > wrote:
> I just went through and cleaned out most of the bugs and patches. I
> also added a facebooker.js file that implements enough of prototype to
> do $() and link_to_remote with :update and remote_form_for  
> with :update
>
> Let me know if you run into any issues with it.
>
> Mike
>
> --
> Mike Mangino
> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
>

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




From mmangino at elevatedrails.com  Fri Mar 14 17:47:29 2008
From: mmangino at elevatedrails.com (Mike Mangino)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:47:29 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker MQ now on RubyForge
In-Reply-To: <4bd13f440803141423r78b1f6e3va93c26a515b48f38@mail.gmail.com>
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And we use it on apps with more than 10 million users with no  
problems. It's not unusual to process several million messages in a  
single day. I highly recommend it. In fact, I'm writing about it right  
now :)

Mike

On Mar 14, 2008, at 4:23 PM, Brian Smith wrote:

> And it speaks memcache :D
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Michael Niessner <mniessner at elevatedrails.com 
> > wrote:
> Starling is pretty nice. It is just over 1000 lines including  
> comments.
>
> Michael
>
> On Mar 14, 2008, at 4:02 PM, David Clements wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Christopher Bailey <chris at cobaltedge.com 
>> > wrote:
>> On 3/14/08, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Christopher Bailey <chris at cobaltedge.com 
>> > wrote:
>> David, this seems like a great idea.  I've been using Spawn to kick  
>> off various things like this in my code.  It has worked well so  
>> far, and alleviates the need for a cron job.
>>
>>
>> As for the publishing thing, I wonder about that.  Does the user  
>> truly have to be interactively logged in, or can you simply use  
>> their infinite session key?
>>
>> Yeah, I was using spawn for awhile, it worked great.  I have an  
>> unfounded aversion to forking lots of processes.  And since my apps  
>> are going to go viral and I am going to have 10 million users by  
>> the end of the day, I figured I should build something more  
>> robust. ;)
>>
>>
>> No doubt!  :)  Ya, my take was actually that I'll use Workling, so  
>> as to transition to something like Starling once load requires it.   
>> But for now, Spawn was the simplest and lightest solution to put  
>> in.  Do note that Spawn can fork or it can use threads, although  
>> the threads variant is a bit more sketchy due to ActiveRecord and  
>> so on (apparently - I haven't tried using the threads version yet,  
>> as I figured once I got to high enough loads where that mattered,  
>> I'd switch to Starling).
>>
>> I am a short and simple kind of guy and like to understand as much  
>> code as I can that I have in production.  I like spawn for sure and  
>> probably should get over my fear of lots of processes.  The thread  
>> thing scared me as well,  as I would have to dive too far into the  
>> rails code to know how that works.
>>
>> I haven't looked at starling yet, and haven't even heard of workling.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Facebooker-talk mailing list
>> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk

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




From digidigo at gmail.com  Fri Mar 14 17:51:32 2008
From: digidigo at gmail.com (David Clements)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:51:32 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker MQ now on RubyForge
In-Reply-To: <33D43919-9C1C-4D4A-9540-DCC072814158@elevatedrails.com>
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Cool,  I wait for the PDF to be updated then!!

Dave

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Mike Mangino <mmangino at elevatedrails.com>
wrote:

> And we use it on apps with more than 10 million users with no
> problems. It's not unusual to process several million messages in a
> single day. I highly recommend it. In fact, I'm writing about it right
> now :)
>
> Mike
>
> On Mar 14, 2008, at 4:23 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
>
> > And it speaks memcache :D
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Michael Niessner <
> mniessner at elevatedrails.com
> > > wrote:
> > Starling is pretty nice. It is just over 1000 lines including
> > comments.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > On Mar 14, 2008, at 4:02 PM, David Clements wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Christopher Bailey <
> chris at cobaltedge.com
> >> > wrote:
> >> On 3/14/08, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Christopher Bailey <
> chris at cobaltedge.com
> >> > wrote:
> >> David, this seems like a great idea.  I've been using Spawn to kick
> >> off various things like this in my code.  It has worked well so
> >> far, and alleviates the need for a cron job.
> >>
> >>
> >> As for the publishing thing, I wonder about that.  Does the user
> >> truly have to be interactively logged in, or can you simply use
> >> their infinite session key?
> >>
> >> Yeah, I was using spawn for awhile, it worked great.  I have an
> >> unfounded aversion to forking lots of processes.  And since my apps
> >> are going to go viral and I am going to have 10 million users by
> >> the end of the day, I figured I should build something more
> >> robust. ;)
> >>
> >>
> >> No doubt!  :)  Ya, my take was actually that I'll use Workling, so
> >> as to transition to something like Starling once load requires it.
> >> But for now, Spawn was the simplest and lightest solution to put
> >> in.  Do note that Spawn can fork or it can use threads, although
> >> the threads variant is a bit more sketchy due to ActiveRecord and
> >> so on (apparently - I haven't tried using the threads version yet,
> >> as I figured once I got to high enough loads where that mattered,
> >> I'd switch to Starling).
> >>
> >> I am a short and simple kind of guy and like to understand as much
> >> code as I can that I have in production.  I like spawn for sure and
> >> probably should get over my fear of lots of processes.  The thread
> >> thing scared me as well,  as I would have to dive too far into the
> >> rails code to know how that works.
> >>
> >> I haven't looked at starling yet, and haven't even heard of workling.
> >>
> >> Dave
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> >> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
> --
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> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>
>
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From heavysixer at gmail.com  Sat Mar 15 22:52:28 2008
From: heavysixer at gmail.com (Heavy Sixer)
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:52:28 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] bypassing verify_authenticity_token before_filter
	when in facebook
Message-ID: <88AA39B6-470F-4052-84CC-749D93841D7A@gmail.com>

Hi list,
Not sure if this is helpful for anyone but I am working on a Facebook  
project where I need bypass the new CSRF protection (built into Rails  
2.0) under certain conditions. However, since my project works  
outside of Facebook I don?t want to disable the CSRF protection from  
requests made outside of Facebook.

Here is a small extension i wrote for the ForgeryProtection module.

ActionController::RequestForgeryProtection.module_eval do
   alias :original_verify_authenticity_token :verify_authenticity_token

   def verify_authenticity_token(*args)
     if controller.params.include?('fb_sig') && controller.action ==  
'sekret_method'
       # Pretend to call this before_filter.
       true
     else
       original_verify_authenticity_token(*args)
     end
   end
end

I detailed the particulars for the how and why in a blog post incase  
any of you are interested:

http://www.locusfoc.us/2008/3/16/if-you-can-t-beat-them-module_eval- 
them-bypassing-the-verify_authenticity_token-before_filter

Later,
Mark
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From jonathan.otto at gmail.com  Sun Mar 16 19:25:45 2008
From: jonathan.otto at gmail.com (Jonathan Otto)
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:25:45 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] facebooker is rewriting URLs even off of
	facebook canvas
In-Reply-To: <443c240c0803101606x1e33ce75i64d609f1c6da93@mail.gmail.com>
References: <b0e948460803101145s425367djc8dcd9c8b7050731@mail.gmail.com>
	<443c240c0803101259y2ab078a1lf95bef2ce3717192@mail.gmail.com>
	<b0e948460803101302h1bd92d64jea9e6460cd6f06cc@mail.gmail.com>
	<443c240c0803101311j5a6e2342h4673a81aed8d2c35@mail.gmail.com>
	<b0e948460803101325w566f3688wd445b142db53eeb3@mail.gmail.com>
	<443c240c0803101402u23192e7ei9bdc2d6db841b661@mail.gmail.com>
	<b0e948460803101446v2c0927fi6c259459ddd237fa@mail.gmail.com>
	<A87035E1-9B5D-46D9-BCB9-50F4F7ED03F8@elevatedrails.com>
	<b0e948460803101549w6db9b2ecy3ccc6f2a4e37773e@mail.gmail.com>
	<443c240c0803101606x1e33ce75i64d609f1c6da93@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <b0e948460803161625t478192a0n4db8b7c75e5a241b@mail.gmail.com>

What about CSS files? Facebook requires any URLs in a CSS to be
absolute (background image for example). Any preferred way to execute
code in a CSS file in Rails?

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Christopher Bailey
<chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> The other approach is setting your asset host based on your Rails
> environment.  That's what I do.  This is also handy if you have a continuous
> integration server, a staging server, and so on.  For dev I set it locally,
> but then we have a staging/test server, and that is different than locally,
> and also not our main domain name, so I need to set it for that, etc.
>
>
> The asset host is probably something that deserves a bit of doc, mostly to
> point out the caveats of it's use, in particular as pertains to development
> vs. production (or staging/test, etc.).  But uh, I guess this thread would
> be the doc ;-)
>
>
> On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Mike, you're right, it shouldn't and doesn't matter - unless you are
> > in development mode. I'm developing a Facebook app and a standalone
> > app at the same time. I don't want the tunnel URL being used when I am
> > testing the standalone app at localhost:3000.
> >
> > Here is one way to get around this problem:
> >
> > In application.rb, I have:
> >
> > before_filter :from_facebook?
> >
> >   def from_facebook?
> >     if !params[:fb_sig].nil?
> >       ActionController::Base.asset_host =
> >
> YAML.load_file("#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/facebooker.yml")[RAILS_ENV]['callback_url']
> >       ensure_application_is_installed_by_facebook_user
> >     else
> >       ActionController::Base.asset_host = nil
> >     end
> >   end
> >
> > So you see it sets the asset_host to nil (which will make it relative)
> > unless the user is in the Facebook canvas - which will then set it to
> > the callback URL.
> >
> > Remember, the callback URL is necessary during development of Facebook
> > applications, but is not necessary for non-Facebook applications. SO
> > I'm trying to avoid my application referencing the Facebook callback
> > URL when in development mode and not in the Facebook canvas.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Mike Mangino
> > <mmangino at elevatedrails.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >  On Mar 10, 2008, at 4:46 PM, Jonathan Otto wrote:
> > >
> > >  > I am doing the latter - using format to control output, but I think
> we
> > >  > may be talking about different things.
> > >  >
> > >  > The URL rewriting on routes actually does work. What doesn't work is
> > >  > the Rails Root url generation. Even when outside of the canvas (and
> > >  > even when the tunnel is off), it is using the rails root URL from the
> > >  > tunnel. For example:
> > >  >
> > >  > When in Facebook, I want my stylesheet and javascript urls to be:
> > >  > example.com:8888/style.css (which obviously works)
> > >  >
> > >  > When not in Facebook, I want my stylesheet and javascript urls to be:
> > >  > example.com/style.css, or when localhosting, localhost:3000/style.css
> > >  >
> > >  > Currently, it is just using the tunnel address all the time -
> > >  > example.com:8000/style.css
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  Why does this matter? Both need to resolve to the same place.
> > >
> > >  By default, Facebooker sets the ActionController::Base.asset_host to
> > >  point to your server so that assets are served from the right
> > >  location. What URL gets used doesn't really matter, as long as it
> > >  resolves an can be contacted. If you have a preference, change your
> > >  asset_host. If you have a need for them to vary, you're going to need
> > >  to hack something to change the asset_host on a request by request
> > >  basis. You'll have the same problem if you allow multiple domain names
> > >  and use the asset host.
> > >
> > >  Mike
> > >
> > >
> > >  --
> > >  Mike Mangino
> > >  http://www.elevatedrails.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Christopher Bailey
> Cobalt Edge LLC
> http://cobaltedge.com

From mmangino at elevatedrails.com  Sun Mar 16 20:16:34 2008
From: mmangino at elevatedrails.com (Mike Mangino)
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:16:34 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] facebooker is rewriting URLs even off of
	facebook canvas
In-Reply-To: <b0e948460803161625t478192a0n4db8b7c75e5a241b@mail.gmail.com>
References: <b0e948460803101145s425367djc8dcd9c8b7050731@mail.gmail.com>
	<443c240c0803101259y2ab078a1lf95bef2ce3717192@mail.gmail.com>
	<b0e948460803101302h1bd92d64jea9e6460cd6f06cc@mail.gmail.com>
	<443c240c0803101311j5a6e2342h4673a81aed8d2c35@mail.gmail.com>
	<b0e948460803101325w566f3688wd445b142db53eeb3@mail.gmail.com>
	<443c240c0803101402u23192e7ei9bdc2d6db841b661@mail.gmail.com>
	<b0e948460803101446v2c0927fi6c259459ddd237fa@mail.gmail.com>
	<A87035E1-9B5D-46D9-BCB9-50F4F7ED03F8@elevatedrails.com>
	<b0e948460803101549w6db9b2ecy3ccc6f2a4e37773e@mail.gmail.com>
	<443c240c0803101606x1e33ce75i64d609f1c6da93@mail.gmail.com>
	<b0e948460803161625t478192a0n4db8b7c75e5a241b@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <FAFCF269-C327-4A3A-AA20-907C1B9FD0BD@elevatedrails.com>

I put css that involves images in a _css partial that gets rendered  
into my layouts. I use external css for the rest.

You'll probably also want to store profile CSS in a partial, as  
profiles don't read external stylesheets.

Mike

On Mar 16, 2008, at 6:25 PM, Jonathan Otto wrote:

> What about CSS files? Facebook requires any URLs in a CSS to be
> absolute (background image for example). Any preferred way to execute
> code in a CSS file in Rails?
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Christopher Bailey
> <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
>> The other approach is setting your asset host based on your Rails
>> environment.  That's what I do.  This is also handy if you have a  
>> continuous
>> integration server, a staging server, and so on.  For dev I set it  
>> locally,
>> but then we have a staging/test server, and that is different than  
>> locally,
>> and also not our main domain name, so I need to set it for that, etc.
>>
>>
>> The asset host is probably something that deserves a bit of doc,  
>> mostly to
>> point out the caveats of it's use, in particular as pertains to  
>> development
>> vs. production (or staging/test, etc.).  But uh, I guess this  
>> thread would
>> be the doc ;-)
>>
>>
>> On 3/10/08, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Mike, you're right, it shouldn't and doesn't matter - unless you are
>>> in development mode. I'm developing a Facebook app and a standalone
>>> app at the same time. I don't want the tunnel URL being used when  
>>> I am
>>> testing the standalone app at localhost:3000.
>>>
>>> Here is one way to get around this problem:
>>>
>>> In application.rb, I have:
>>>
>>> before_filter :from_facebook?
>>>
>>>  def from_facebook?
>>>    if !params[:fb_sig].nil?
>>>      ActionController::Base.asset_host =
>>>
>> YAML.load_file("#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/facebooker.yml")[RAILS_ENV] 
>> ['callback_url']
>>>      ensure_application_is_installed_by_facebook_user
>>>    else
>>>      ActionController::Base.asset_host = nil
>>>    end
>>>  end
>>>
>>> So you see it sets the asset_host to nil (which will make it  
>>> relative)
>>> unless the user is in the Facebook canvas - which will then set it  
>>> to
>>> the callback URL.
>>>
>>> Remember, the callback URL is necessary during development of  
>>> Facebook
>>> applications, but is not necessary for non-Facebook applications. SO
>>> I'm trying to avoid my application referencing the Facebook callback
>>> URL when in development mode and not in the Facebook canvas.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Mike Mangino
>>> <mmangino at elevatedrails.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 10, 2008, at 4:46 PM, Jonathan Otto wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am doing the latter - using format to control output, but I  
>>>>> think
>> we
>>>>> may be talking about different things.
>>>>>
>>>>> The URL rewriting on routes actually does work. What doesn't  
>>>>> work is
>>>>> the Rails Root url generation. Even when outside of the canvas  
>>>>> (and
>>>>> even when the tunnel is off), it is using the rails root URL  
>>>>> from the
>>>>> tunnel. For example:
>>>>>
>>>>> When in Facebook, I want my stylesheet and javascript urls to be:
>>>>> example.com:8888/style.css (which obviously works)
>>>>>
>>>>> When not in Facebook, I want my stylesheet and javascript urls  
>>>>> to be:
>>>>> example.com/style.css, or when localhosting, localhost:3000/ 
>>>>> style.css
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently, it is just using the tunnel address all the time -
>>>>> example.com:8000/style.css
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why does this matter? Both need to resolve to the same place.
>>>>
>>>> By default, Facebooker sets the ActionController::Base.asset_host  
>>>> to
>>>> point to your server so that assets are served from the right
>>>> location. What URL gets used doesn't really matter, as long as it
>>>> resolves an can be contacted. If you have a preference, change your
>>>> asset_host. If you have a need for them to vary, you're going to  
>>>> need
>>>> to hack something to change the asset_host on a request by request
>>>> basis. You'll have the same problem if you allow multiple domain  
>>>> names
>>>> and use the asset host.
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Mike Mangino
>>>> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Christopher Bailey
>> Cobalt Edge LLC
>> http://cobaltedge.com

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




From mmangino at elevatedrails.com  Tue Mar 18 13:52:57 2008
From: mmangino at elevatedrails.com (Mike Mangino)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:52:57 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] examples in subversion
Message-ID: <D70E8BB3-CF9E-462A-9FE9-BE131E6B6987@elevatedrails.com>

Hey everyone. I have a quick question. Checking out facebooker as a  
plugin is currently really slow due to the example rails application.  
Would anyone object if I moved that out of the main plugin directory?

Mike

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




From shanev at gmail.com  Tue Mar 18 14:09:00 2008
From: shanev at gmail.com (Shane Vitarana)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:09:00 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] examples in subversion
In-Reply-To: <D70E8BB3-CF9E-462A-9FE9-BE131E6B6987@elevatedrails.com>
References: <D70E8BB3-CF9E-462A-9FE9-BE131E6B6987@elevatedrails.com>
Message-ID: <4ab757a40803181109l1884ab4fjfd596b3186457af@mail.gmail.com>

Sure.  Last time I checked it was just a skeleton Rails app with no
facebooker specific code.

Shane

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Mike Mangino
<mmangino at elevatedrails.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone. I have a quick question. Checking out facebooker as a
>  plugin is currently really slow due to the example rails application.
>  Would anyone object if I moved that out of the main plugin directory?
>
>  Mike
>
>  --
>  Mike Mangino
>  http://www.elevatedrails.com
>
>
>
>  _______________________________________________
>  Facebooker-talk mailing list
>  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>



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From mniessner at elevatedrails.com  Tue Mar 18 14:37:18 2008
From: mniessner at elevatedrails.com (Michael Niessner)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:37:18 -0400
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] examples in subversion
In-Reply-To: <4ab757a40803181109l1884ab4fjfd596b3186457af@mail.gmail.com>
References: <D70E8BB3-CF9E-462A-9FE9-BE131E6B6987@elevatedrails.com>
	<4ab757a40803181109l1884ab4fjfd596b3186457af@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <0923C76F-7532-4711-BF8D-118FA6580D5E@gmail.com>

If it is just an empty skeleton I am for removing it. If not, I'm  
indifferent.

Michael

On Mar 18, 2008, at 2:09 PM, Shane Vitarana wrote:

> Sure.  Last time I checked it was just a skeleton Rails app with no
> facebooker specific code.
>
> Shane
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Mike Mangino
> <mmangino at elevatedrails.com> wrote:
>> Hey everyone. I have a quick question. Checking out facebooker as a
>> plugin is currently really slow due to the example rails application.
>> Would anyone object if I moved that out of the main plugin directory?
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> --
>> Mike Mangino
>> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Facebooker-talk mailing list
>> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>>
>
>
>
> -- 
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> _______________________________________________
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> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk


From david.g.clements at gmail.com  Tue Mar 18 14:38:48 2008
From: david.g.clements at gmail.com (David Clements)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:38:48 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] examples in subversion
In-Reply-To: <4ab757a40803181109l1884ab4fjfd596b3186457af@mail.gmail.com>
References: <D70E8BB3-CF9E-462A-9FE9-BE131E6B6987@elevatedrails.com>
	<4ab757a40803181109l1884ab4fjfd596b3186457af@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <99FF6AA4-DF70-4439-BB73-7604ED70BCEE@gmail.com>

Yeah,  that would be great .  Nuke it!

Dave

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 18, 2008, at 12:09 PM, "Shane Vitarana" <shanev at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sure.  Last time I checked it was just a skeleton Rails app with no
> facebooker specific code.
>
> Shane
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Mike Mangino
> <mmangino at elevatedrails.com> wrote:
>> Hey everyone. I have a quick question. Checking out facebooker as a
>> plugin is currently really slow due to the example rails application.
>> Would anyone object if I moved that out of the main plugin directory?
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> --
>> Mike Mangino
>> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Facebooker-talk mailing list
>> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> http://shanesbrain.net | http://crimsonjet.com | http://myfitbuddy.com
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk

From jonathan.otto at gmail.com  Tue Mar 18 17:12:33 2008
From: jonathan.otto at gmail.com (Jonathan Otto)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:12:33 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Merge Facebook friends with app friends
Message-ID: <b0e948460803181412w1ea6679dm7a67d6f20dac0856@mail.gmail.com>

I have an attribute on my user model called friends, is it possible to
merge the session[:facebook_session].user.friends_with_this_app with
the friends attribute? Optimally I could call @user.friends and it
would return the standalone app's friends and the Facebook friends who
have the app.

From jonathan.otto at gmail.com  Tue Mar 18 19:11:35 2008
From: jonathan.otto at gmail.com (Jonathan Otto)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:11:35 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] respond_to formats, fbml and fbjs
Message-ID: <b0e948460803181611q5c16fc91p2634e387061849cb@mail.gmail.com>

In my controllers I have a respond_to block for both fbml and fbjs.

I created the fbjs mime type in environment.rb:
Mime::Type.register "application/javascript", :fbjs

However, even if I specify fbjs in a parameter name format during AJAX
post requests, it is being overwritten by Rails or Facebooker as FBML.
I confirmed this by placing logger.debug params[:format] immediately
before the respond_to block. The only way around it is to force it by
creating a boolean parameter like from_fbjs.

if params[:from_fbjs]
      request.format = :fbjs
end

Anyone else dealing with this?

From jonathan.otto at gmail.com  Tue Mar 18 19:27:35 2008
From: jonathan.otto at gmail.com (Jonathan Otto)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:27:35 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] respond_to formats, fbml and fbjs
In-Reply-To: <b0e948460803181611q5c16fc91p2634e387061849cb@mail.gmail.com>
References: <b0e948460803181611q5c16fc91p2634e387061849cb@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <b0e948460803181627r38a67383rd8c4ebbf4c70e81b@mail.gmail.com>

Did the following to stop overwriting ajax requests as FBML

vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/rails/controller.rb

def set_fbml_format
  params[:format]="fbml" if request_is_for_a_facebook_canvas?
  params[:format]="fbjs" if request_is_facebook_ajax?
end

config/initializers

Mime::Type.register 'text/html', :fbml
Mime::Type.register "application/javascript", :fbjs

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com> wrote:
> In my controllers I have a respond_to block for both fbml and fbjs.
>
>  I created the fbjs mime type in environment.rb:
>  Mime::Type.register "application/javascript", :fbjs
>
>  However, even if I specify fbjs in a parameter name format during AJAX
>  post requests, it is being overwritten by Rails or Facebooker as FBML.
>  I confirmed this by placing logger.debug params[:format] immediately
>  before the respond_to block. The only way around it is to force it by
>  creating a boolean parameter like from_fbjs.
>
>  if params[:from_fbjs]
>       request.format = :fbjs
>  end
>
>  Anyone else dealing with this?
>

From mmangino at elevatedrails.com  Tue Mar 18 19:36:43 2008
From: mmangino at elevatedrails.com (Mike Mangino)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:36:43 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] respond_to formats, fbml and fbjs
In-Reply-To: <b0e948460803181627r38a67383rd8c4ebbf4c70e81b@mail.gmail.com>
References: <b0e948460803181611q5c16fc91p2634e387061849cb@mail.gmail.com>
	<b0e948460803181627r38a67383rd8c4ebbf4c70e81b@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <3BCAC7AB-88BF-47DA-9319-FD5A9B207496@elevatedrails.com>

Hmm, that will break things like link_to_remote with update.

What type of content are you sending back in your .fbjs block? It's  
fbml as well, right?

request.xhr? will work to differentiate between the two request types.

Mike


On Mar 18, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Jonathan Otto wrote:
> Did the following to stop overwriting ajax requests as FBML
>
> vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/rails/controller.rb
>
> def set_fbml_format
>  params[:format]="fbml" if request_is_for_a_facebook_canvas?
>  params[:format]="fbjs" if request_is_facebook_ajax?
> end
>
> config/initializers
>
> Mime::Type.register 'text/html', :fbml
> Mime::Type.register "application/javascript", :fbjs
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>> In my controllers I have a respond_to block for both fbml and fbjs.
>>
>> I created the fbjs mime type in environment.rb:
>> Mime::Type.register "application/javascript", :fbjs
>>
>> However, even if I specify fbjs in a parameter name format during  
>> AJAX
>> post requests, it is being overwritten by Rails or Facebooker as  
>> FBML.
>> I confirmed this by placing logger.debug params[:format] immediately
>> before the respond_to block. The only way around it is to force it by
>> creating a boolean parameter like from_fbjs.
>>
>> if params[:from_fbjs]
>>      request.format = :fbjs
>> end
>>
>> Anyone else dealing with this?
>>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk

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




From jonathan.otto at gmail.com  Tue Mar 18 19:59:45 2008
From: jonathan.otto at gmail.com (Jonathan Otto)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:59:45 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] respond_to formats, fbml and fbjs
In-Reply-To: <3BCAC7AB-88BF-47DA-9319-FD5A9B207496@elevatedrails.com>
References: <b0e948460803181611q5c16fc91p2634e387061849cb@mail.gmail.com>
	<b0e948460803181627r38a67383rd8c4ebbf4c70e81b@mail.gmail.com>
	<3BCAC7AB-88BF-47DA-9319-FD5A9B207496@elevatedrails.com>
Message-ID: <b0e948460803181659i612d8113u4344c7d4525a6ed6@mail.gmail.com>

Why would it break it? It just demands that a FBJS request type must
be responded to. To me, this seems more intuitive than responding to a
FBJS with a fbml request type.

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Mike Mangino
<mmangino at elevatedrails.com> wrote:
> Hmm, that will break things like link_to_remote with update.
>
>  What type of content are you sending back in your .fbjs block? It's
>  fbml as well, right?
>
>  request.xhr? will work to differentiate between the two request types.
>
>  Mike
>
>
>
>
>  On Mar 18, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Jonathan Otto wrote:
>  > Did the following to stop overwriting ajax requests as FBML
>  >
>  > vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/rails/controller.rb
>  >
>  > def set_fbml_format
>  >  params[:format]="fbml" if request_is_for_a_facebook_canvas?
>  >  params[:format]="fbjs" if request_is_facebook_ajax?
>  > end
>  >
>  > config/initializers
>  >
>  > Mime::Type.register 'text/html', :fbml
>  > Mime::Type.register "application/javascript", :fbjs
>  >
>  > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com
>  > > wrote:
>  >> In my controllers I have a respond_to block for both fbml and fbjs.
>  >>
>  >> I created the fbjs mime type in environment.rb:
>  >> Mime::Type.register "application/javascript", :fbjs
>  >>
>  >> However, even if I specify fbjs in a parameter name format during
>  >> AJAX
>  >> post requests, it is being overwritten by Rails or Facebooker as
>  >> FBML.
>  >> I confirmed this by placing logger.debug params[:format] immediately
>  >> before the respond_to block. The only way around it is to force it by
>  >> creating a boolean parameter like from_fbjs.
>  >>
>  >> if params[:from_fbjs]
>  >>      request.format = :fbjs
>  >> end
>  >>
>  >> Anyone else dealing with this?
>  >>
>  > _______________________________________________
>  > Facebooker-talk mailing list
>  > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>  > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
>  --
>  Mike Mangino
>  http://www.elevatedrails.com
>
>
>
>

From mmangino at elevatedrails.com  Tue Mar 18 20:59:45 2008
From: mmangino at elevatedrails.com (Mike Mangino)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:59:45 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] respond_to formats, fbml and fbjs
In-Reply-To: <b0e948460803181659i612d8113u4344c7d4525a6ed6@mail.gmail.com>
References: <b0e948460803181611q5c16fc91p2634e387061849cb@mail.gmail.com>
	<b0e948460803181627r38a67383rd8c4ebbf4c70e81b@mail.gmail.com>
	<3BCAC7AB-88BF-47DA-9319-FD5A9B207496@elevatedrails.com>
	<b0e948460803181659i612d8113u4344c7d4525a6ed6@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <DD8AA532-9AE3-43C5-9D69-C7A9AEAADE92@elevatedrails.com>

It also means your templates must be action.fbjs.erb instead of  
action.fbml.erb, even though it is an fbml template.

I'm not the way it works now is right, I just want to be able to share  
my .fbml.erb partials.

Mike


On Mar 18, 2008, at 6:59 PM, Jonathan Otto wrote:
> Why would it break it? It just demands that a FBJS request type must
> be responded to. To me, this seems more intuitive than responding to a
> FBJS with a fbml request type.
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Mike Mangino
> <mmangino at elevatedrails.com> wrote:
>> Hmm, that will break things like link_to_remote with update.
>>
>> What type of content are you sending back in your .fbjs block? It's
>> fbml as well, right?
>>
>> request.xhr? will work to differentiate between the two request  
>> types.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 18, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Jonathan Otto wrote:
>>> Did the following to stop overwriting ajax requests as FBML
>>>
>>> vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/rails/controller.rb
>>>
>>> def set_fbml_format
>>> params[:format]="fbml" if request_is_for_a_facebook_canvas?
>>> params[:format]="fbjs" if request_is_facebook_ajax?
>>> end
>>>
>>> config/initializers
>>>
>>> Mime::Type.register 'text/html', :fbml
>>> Mime::Type.register "application/javascript", :fbjs
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com
>>>> wrote:
>>>> In my controllers I have a respond_to block for both fbml and fbjs.
>>>>
>>>> I created the fbjs mime type in environment.rb:
>>>> Mime::Type.register "application/javascript", :fbjs
>>>>
>>>> However, even if I specify fbjs in a parameter name format during
>>>> AJAX
>>>> post requests, it is being overwritten by Rails or Facebooker as
>>>> FBML.
>>>> I confirmed this by placing logger.debug params[:format]  
>>>> immediately
>>>> before the respond_to block. The only way around it is to force  
>>>> it by
>>>> creating a boolean parameter like from_fbjs.
>>>>
>>>> if params[:from_fbjs]
>>>>     request.format = :fbjs
>>>> end
>>>>
>>>> Anyone else dealing with this?
>>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Facebooker-talk mailing list
>>> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>>
>> --
>> Mike Mangino
>> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>>
>>
>>
>>

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




From sbwoodside at yahoo.com  Wed Mar 19 20:11:09 2008
From: sbwoodside at yahoo.com (S. Woodside)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:11:09 -0400
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] can someone write tests for my patch?
Message-ID: <A2FE79C4-41DA-4217-8903-8A37CB4AE445@yahoo.com>

Sorry ... I'm really lazy (and insanely busy more to the point) ..  
but you'll get support for fb:dialog...

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/? 
func=detail&atid=16132&aid=18772&group_id=4187

--simon

--
http://simonwoodside.com


From d.halford at gmail.com  Wed Mar 19 23:10:42 2008
From: d.halford at gmail.com (Dean Halford)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:10:42 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Get list of users in one call
Message-ID: <877333350803192010g5640c7ay53419f28a014827a@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

I am working on an external/iframe application and am looking for a good way
to display fb info (pic, name) for a set of users.  Since I'm not an fbml
app, I can't use any of the fb_ helpers to access this, and without
instanciating a user for each and making multiple calls, I don't see a
convienient way of doing this.

I am new to facebooker, but have used rfacebook in a project before.
Obviously this was done via user.getinfo([uids]) in rfacebook, but is there
any way to achieve this with the facebooker wrapper?

cheers
dean
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From digidigo at gmail.com  Thu Mar 20 17:59:37 2008
From: digidigo at gmail.com (David Clements)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:59:37 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Anyone having problems with asset_host not
	getting set up right?
Message-ID: <ea9161c50803201459w2f7951demced73d1b43b45524@mail.gmail.com>

Hey All,

I think I found a bug but I would be suprised since it would cause major
problems.

We setup the asset_host in init.rb with:
if File.exist?(facebook_config)
  FACEBOOKER = YAML.load_file(facebook_config)[RAILS_ENV]
  ENV['FACEBOOK_API_KEY'] = FACEBOOKER['api_key']
  ENV['FACEBOOK_SECRET_KEY'] = FACEBOOKER['secret_key']
  ENV['FACEBOOKER_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT'] = FACEBOOKER['canvas_page_name']
  ActionController::Base.asset_host ||= FACEBOOKER['callback_url']
end

But ActionController::Base.asset_host == ""

So it never gets set -- which means stylesheets and images gon't get pulled
in from facebook.

I am going to change it to :
    ActionController::Base.asset_host = FACEBOOKER['callback_url']
if(ActionController::Base.asset_host.blank?)

I just wanted to check with the list first in case I am missing something
simple.

Dave
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From mmangino at elevatedrails.com  Fri Mar 21 08:06:05 2008
From: mmangino at elevatedrails.com (Mike Mangino)
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:06:05 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Anyone having problems with asset_host not
	getting set up right?
In-Reply-To: <ea9161c50803201459w2f7951demced73d1b43b45524@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ea9161c50803201459w2f7951demced73d1b43b45524@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <2BA6940C-BF01-4382-9B13-2668E77EAD05@elevatedrails.com>

I think that's a good change. I thought I already made that, but I  
must not have committed it.

Mike

On Mar 20, 2008, at 4:59 PM, David Clements wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> I think I found a bug but I would be suprised since it would cause  
> major problems.
>
> We setup the asset_host in init.rb with:
> if File.exist?(facebook_config)
>  FACEBOOKER = YAML.load_file(facebook_config)[RAILS_ENV]
>  ENV['FACEBOOK_API_KEY'] = FACEBOOKER['api_key']
>  ENV['FACEBOOK_SECRET_KEY'] = FACEBOOKER['secret_key']
>  ENV['FACEBOOKER_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT'] = FACEBOOKER['canvas_page_name']
>  ActionController::Base.asset_host ||= FACEBOOKER['callback_url']
> end
>
> But ActionController::Base.asset_host == ""
>
> So it never gets set -- which means stylesheets and images gon't get  
> pulled in from facebook.
>
> I am going to change it to :
>    ActionController::Base.asset_host = FACEBOOKER['callback_url']  
> if(ActionController::Base.asset_host.blank?)
>
> I just wanted to check with the list first in case I am missing  
> something simple.
>
> Dave
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk

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




From digidigo at gmail.com  Fri Mar 21 12:27:21 2008
From: digidigo at gmail.com (David Clements)
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:27:21 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Anyone having problems with asset_host not
	getting set up right?
In-Reply-To: <2BA6940C-BF01-4382-9B13-2668E77EAD05@elevatedrails.com>
References: <ea9161c50803201459w2f7951demced73d1b43b45524@mail.gmail.com>
	<2BA6940C-BF01-4382-9B13-2668E77EAD05@elevatedrails.com>
Message-ID: <ea9161c50803210927g2763del10f5d464dad2bb34@mail.gmail.com>

K,

Done.



Dave


On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Mike Mangino <mmangino at elevatedrails.com>
wrote:

> I think that's a good change. I thought I already made that, but I
> must not have committed it.
>
> Mike
>
> On Mar 20, 2008, at 4:59 PM, David Clements wrote:
> > Hey All,
> >
> > I think I found a bug but I would be suprised since it would cause
> > major problems.
> >
> > We setup the asset_host in init.rb with:
> > if File.exist?(facebook_config)
> >  FACEBOOKER = YAML.load_file(facebook_config)[RAILS_ENV]
> >  ENV['FACEBOOK_API_KEY'] = FACEBOOKER['api_key']
> >  ENV['FACEBOOK_SECRET_KEY'] = FACEBOOKER['secret_key']
> >  ENV['FACEBOOKER_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT'] = FACEBOOKER['canvas_page_name']
> >  ActionController::Base.asset_host ||= FACEBOOKER['callback_url']
> > end
> >
> > But ActionController::Base.asset_host == ""
> >
> > So it never gets set -- which means stylesheets and images gon't get
> > pulled in from facebook.
> >
> > I am going to change it to :
> >    ActionController::Base.asset_host = FACEBOOKER['callback_url']
> > if(ActionController::Base.asset_host.blank?)
> >
> > I just wanted to check with the list first in case I am missing
> > something simple.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
> --
> Mike Mangino
> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>
>
>
>
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From jonathan.otto at gmail.com  Mon Mar 24 13:52:06 2008
From: jonathan.otto at gmail.com (Jonathan Otto)
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:52:06 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] link_to_remote and restful routes/urls
Message-ID: <b0e948460803241052k3d080e0cn8c25abbe57e29364@mail.gmail.com>

is there a way to access a restful resource with mike's new
link_to_remote helper?

something like:

<%= link_to_remote h(user.name),
                        :update => "div_id",
                        :url => user_url(user) %>

of course, that doesn't work.

i have also been trying things like:

:url => controller.asset_host + "/users/#{user.id}?method=get" %>

to no avail.

From mmangino at elevatedrails.com  Mon Mar 24 14:32:29 2008
From: mmangino at elevatedrails.com (Mike Mangino)
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:32:29 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] link_to_remote and restful routes/urls
In-Reply-To: <b0e948460803241052k3d080e0cn8c25abbe57e29364@mail.gmail.com>
References: <b0e948460803241052k3d080e0cn8c25abbe57e29364@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <FA456FB9-CEC2-4BAD-9B22-815406698058@elevatedrails.com>

user_url(:id=>user,:canvas=>false)

Mike

On Mar 24, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Jonathan Otto wrote:
> is there a way to access a restful resource with mike's new
> link_to_remote helper?
>
> something like:
>
> <%= link_to_remote h(user.name),
>                        :update => "div_id",
>                        :url => user_url(user) %>
>
> of course, that doesn't work.
>
> i have also been trying things like:
>
> :url => controller.asset_host + "/users/#{user.id}?method=get" %>
>
> to no avail.
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk

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




From carlosparamio at gmail.com  Mon Mar 24 15:12:26 2008
From: carlosparamio at gmail.com (Carlos Paramio)
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:12:26 +0100
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Support for unparsed responses and json parser
Message-ID: <d20265280803241212q1d2cb058s36640de4c47182f7@mail.gmail.com>

This is my first message to the list. Hello everybody!

I just wanted to let you know that I submitted a couple of patches for
two features that you might find them of interest.

The first one adds support for unparsed responses to
Facebooker::Session and Facebooker::Service models. This allows to use
the
Facebooker::Session.post method to obtain a plain response from the
Facebook API, useful for example for uncovered methods (like those for
the new Data Store API), or complex responses to a FQL query, but
still uses Facebooker for the parameters signature and the rest of
logic. The option to parse or not can be modified in runtime, so you
can use the same Facebook session object for any query, parsed or not.

The patch is a diff of svn trunk at 18th Mar, and you can find it
here, with usage examples:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=18910&group_id=4187&atid=16132

The second one is a preliminar support for a JSON parser that
complements the XML parser, and that refactor the XML parser. The
usage of one or the other is selectable at runtime. I found that JSON
responses uses a lot less of bandwidth than the XML ones, and are
easier to parse. Combined with the previous patch, the resulted JSON
string for a query can be used directly on a view that contains some
Javascript code, without needing to parse the response and then
convert it to a string again to output it. I haven't merged this patch
with the previous one, by the way, in case that you consider this of
interest but not the other.

Again, the patch is a diff of svn trunk at 18th Mar, and you can find
it here, with usage examples:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=18916&group_id=4187&atid=16132

I hope that any of them was useful for somebody.
-- 
Carlos Paramio

From carlosparamio at gmail.com  Mon Mar 24 15:40:09 2008
From: carlosparamio at gmail.com (Carlos Paramio)
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:40:09 +0100
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Support for unparsed responses and json parser
In-Reply-To: <d20265280803241212q1d2cb058s36640de4c47182f7@mail.gmail.com>
References: <d20265280803241212q1d2cb058s36640de4c47182f7@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <d20265280803241240x7ebf2bcah6099801bee0ca56a@mail.gmail.com>

Oh! I forgot to mention that you can find a better explanation and
some examples of them at my blog, in case some of you are interested:

http://evolve.st/posts/2-facebooker-gem-and-non-parseable-responses

http://evolve.st/posts/5-a-json-parser-for-facebooker

Carlos Paramio


On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Carlos Paramio <carlosparamio at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is my first message to the list. Hello everybody!
>
>  I just wanted to let you know that I submitted a couple of patches for
>  two features that you might find them of interest.
>
>  The first one adds support for unparsed responses to
>  Facebooker::Session and Facebooker::Service models. This allows to use
>  the
>  Facebooker::Session.post method to obtain a plain response from the
>  Facebook API, useful for example for uncovered methods (like those for
>  the new Data Store API), or complex responses to a FQL query, but
>  still uses Facebooker for the parameters signature and the rest of
>  logic. The option to parse or not can be modified in runtime, so you
>  can use the same Facebook session object for any query, parsed or not.
>
>  The patch is a diff of svn trunk at 18th Mar, and you can find it
>  here, with usage examples:
>
>  http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=18910&group_id=4187&atid=16132
>
>  The second one is a preliminar support for a JSON parser that
>  complements the XML parser, and that refactor the XML parser. The
>  usage of one or the other is selectable at runtime. I found that JSON
>  responses uses a lot less of bandwidth than the XML ones, and are
>  easier to parse. Combined with the previous patch, the resulted JSON
>  string for a query can be used directly on a view that contains some
>  Javascript code, without needing to parse the response and then
>  convert it to a string again to output it. I haven't merged this patch
>  with the previous one, by the way, in case that you consider this of
>  interest but not the other.
>
>  Again, the patch is a diff of svn trunk at 18th Mar, and you can find
>  it here, with usage examples:
>
>  http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=18916&group_id=4187&atid=16132
>
>  I hope that any of them was useful for somebody.
>  --
>  Carlos Paramio

From jatinder.saundh at gmail.com  Mon Mar 24 16:36:01 2008
From: jatinder.saundh at gmail.com (Jatinder Singh)
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:36:01 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] render not able to locate template in publisher
Message-ID: <6368279b0803241336l26689e2bvdf6d5ad9b355d21f@mail.gmail.com>

Hi guys,

I have a publisher called UserPublisher setup in models directory of
my app. The reason I have it in a model is because its then possible
for me to invoke publisher methods in after_callbacks of my other
models, just the way we do it for ActionMailer.

My problem is that when I try to update a users profile specifying
location of the view template as a paramater to "profile" method, it
gives an error "ActionView::TemplateFinder::InvalidViewPath
(Unprocessed view path found:
"/home/jatinder/rails_apps/app-name/app/views/."

The call to profile method looks like this,
profile render :partial => "/users/profile", :assigns => {:user =>
user_to_be_updated }


Anybody has a clue where could I be wrong?

Jatinder

From jonathan.otto at gmail.com  Mon Mar 24 17:06:21 2008
From: jonathan.otto at gmail.com (Jonathan Otto)
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:06:21 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] link_to_remote and restful routes/urls
In-Reply-To: <FA456FB9-CEC2-4BAD-9B22-815406698058@elevatedrails.com>
References: <b0e948460803241052k3d080e0cn8c25abbe57e29364@mail.gmail.com>
	<FA456FB9-CEC2-4BAD-9B22-815406698058@elevatedrails.com>
Message-ID: <b0e948460803241406h75db7cd8p507346710156ed5@mail.gmail.com>

any way to specify the request as GET?

users_url(:canvas=>false, :method => :get) is sending a POST request
so its taking me to the create method

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Mike Mangino
<mmangino at elevatedrails.com> wrote:
> user_url(:id=>user,:canvas=>false)
>
>  Mike
>
>
>
>  On Mar 24, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Jonathan Otto wrote:
>  > is there a way to access a restful resource with mike's new
>  > link_to_remote helper?
>  >
>  > something like:
>  >
>  > <%= link_to_remote h(user.name),
>  >                        :update => "div_id",
>  >                        :url => user_url(user) %>
>  >
>  > of course, that doesn't work.
>  >
>  > i have also been trying things like:
>  >
>  > :url => controller.asset_host + "/users/#{user.id}?method=get" %>
>  >
>  > to no avail.
>  > _______________________________________________
>  > Facebooker-talk mailing list
>  > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>  > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
>  --
>  Mike Mangino
>  http://www.elevatedrails.com
>
>
>
>

From tom at lianza.org  Mon Mar 24 22:21:39 2008
From: tom at lianza.org (Tom Lianza)
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:21:39 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker::Session::SessionExpired (Session key
	invalid or no longer valid)
Message-ID: <f08ba350803241921p6cb9132dkf4de71dcaca74b7@mail.gmail.com>

Hi All,

I'm having horrible problems with this exception, which seems to happen as
soon as I access the session object.  Does anyone know what the path is to
recover from this?  This post looked to be the most promising:
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/facebooker-talk/2007-December/000047.html

And I followed all of the steps except switching my session store, and
modifying the default protect_from_forgery setting, as I wasn't comfortable
doing either just for the sake of this plugin.  In any case, I'd still want
to know how to handle this exception once it's thrown, since it doesn't seem
like the kind of thing that's totally fatal.

As soon as I try to access the uid of the logged in user, I get this:

Facebooker::Session::SessionExpired (Session key invalid or no longer
valid):
    /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/parser.rb:386:in `process'
    /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/parser.rb:15:in `parse'
    /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/service.rb:13:in `post'
    /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/session.rb:399:in `post'
    /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/models/user.rb:71:in
`populate'
    /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/model.rb:35:in `uid'

I'm trying to figure out how to recover, create a new session if this one is
invalid.

Thanks!
Tom
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From jatinder.saundh at gmail.com  Mon Mar 24 22:23:30 2008
From: jatinder.saundh at gmail.com (Jatinder Singh)
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:23:30 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker::Session::SessionExpired (Session
	key invalid or no longer valid)
In-Reply-To: <f08ba350803241921p6cb9132dkf4de71dcaca74b7@mail.gmail.com>
References: <f08ba350803241921p6cb9132dkf4de71dcaca74b7@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <6368279b0803241923n7606ba98mb7d7f7010ecc6bc5@mail.gmail.com>

Hey,

I was having this problem yesterday, but it got resolved after I
switched to Active Record session store.



Jatinder

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Tom Lianza <tom at lianza.org> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm having horrible problems with this exception, which seems to happen as
> soon as I access the session object.  Does anyone know what the path is to
> recover from this?  This post looked to be the most promising:
> http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/facebooker-talk/2007-December/000047.html
>
> And I followed all of the steps except switching my session store, and
> modifying the default protect_from_forgery setting, as I wasn't comfortable
> doing either just for the sake of this plugin.  In any case, I'd still want
> to know how to handle this exception once it's thrown, since it doesn't seem
> like the kind of thing that's totally fatal.
>
> As soon as I try to access the uid of the logged in user, I get this:
>
> Facebooker::Session::SessionExpired (Session key invalid or no longer
> valid):
>     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/parser.rb:386:in `process'
>      /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/parser.rb:15:in `parse'
>     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/service.rb:13:in `post'
>     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/session.rb:399:in `post'
>      /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/models/user.rb:71:in
> `populate'
>     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/model.rb:35:in `uid'
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to recover, create a new session if this one is
> invalid.
>
> Thanks!
> Tom
>
> _______________________________________________
>  Facebooker-talk mailing list
>  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
>

From digidigo at gmail.com  Mon Mar 24 22:39:03 2008
From: digidigo at gmail.com (David Clements)
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:39:03 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker::Session::SessionExpired (Session
	key invalid or no longer valid)
In-Reply-To: <6368279b0803241923n7606ba98mb7d7f7010ecc6bc5@mail.gmail.com>
References: <f08ba350803241921p6cb9132dkf4de71dcaca74b7@mail.gmail.com>
	<6368279b0803241923n7606ba98mb7d7f7010ecc6bc5@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ea9161c50803241939h22255838l668047fe779faafe@mail.gmail.com>

Yeah,  storing sessions in cookies is problematic with facebook.
The protect from forgery setting is necessary when doing ajax through the
Facebook Proxy.

Dave

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Jatinder Singh <jatinder.saundh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I was having this problem yesterday, but it got resolved after I
> switched to Active Record session store.
>
>
>
> Jatinder
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Tom Lianza <tom at lianza.org> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm having horrible problems with this exception, which seems to happen
> as
> > soon as I access the session object.  Does anyone know what the path is
> to
> > recover from this?  This post looked to be the most promising:
> > http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/facebooker-talk/2007-December/000047.html
> >
> > And I followed all of the steps except switching my session store, and
> > modifying the default protect_from_forgery setting, as I wasn't
> comfortable
> > doing either just for the sake of this plugin.  In any case, I'd still
> want
> > to know how to handle this exception once it's thrown, since it doesn't
> seem
> > like the kind of thing that's totally fatal.
> >
> > As soon as I try to access the uid of the logged in user, I get this:
> >
> > Facebooker::Session::SessionExpired (Session key invalid or no longer
> > valid):
> >     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/parser.rb:386:in `process'
> >      /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/parser.rb:15:in `parse'
> >     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/service.rb:13:in `post'
> >     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/session.rb:399:in `post'
> >      /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/models/user.rb:71:in
> > `populate'
> >     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/model.rb:35:in `uid'
> >
> > I'm trying to figure out how to recover, create a new session if this
> one is
> > invalid.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Tom
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> >  Facebooker-talk mailing list
> >  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> >  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> >
> >
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
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From jatinder.saundh at gmail.com  Mon Mar 24 22:46:45 2008
From: jatinder.saundh at gmail.com (Jatinder Singh)
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:46:45 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] render not able to locate template in
	publisher
In-Reply-To: <6368279b0803241336l26689e2bvdf6d5ad9b355d21f@mail.gmail.com>
References: <6368279b0803241336l26689e2bvdf6d5ad9b355d21f@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <6368279b0803241946s6a174de2ke4c8566a64f1083b@mail.gmail.com>

I resolved this by replacing following line in method
"initialize_template_class" of publisher.rb
 returning ActionView::Base.new([template_root,File.join(template_root,self.class.controller_path)],
assigns, self) do |template|

with

 path = ActionController::Base.view_paths rescue
ActionController::Base.view_root
 returning ActionView::Base.new(path, assigns, self) do |template|

Anyone who has faced a similar problem before?



Thanks
Jatinder


On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Jatinder Singh
<jatinder.saundh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
>  I have a publisher called UserPublisher setup in models directory of
>  my app. The reason I have it in a model is because its then possible
>  for me to invoke publisher methods in after_callbacks of my other
>  models, just the way we do it for ActionMailer.
>
>  My problem is that when I try to update a users profile specifying
>  location of the view template as a paramater to "profile" method, it
>  gives an error "ActionView::TemplateFinder::InvalidViewPath
>  (Unprocessed view path found:
>  "/home/jatinder/rails_apps/app-name/app/views/."
>
>  The call to profile method looks like this,
>  profile render :partial => "/users/profile", :assigns => {:user =>
>  user_to_be_updated }
>
>
>  Anybody has a clue where could I be wrong?
>
>  Jatinder
>

From tom at lianza.org  Mon Mar 24 23:21:57 2008
From: tom at lianza.org (Tom Lianza)
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:21:57 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker::Session::SessionExpired (Session
	key invalid or no longer valid)
In-Reply-To: <ea9161c50803241939h22255838l668047fe779faafe@mail.gmail.com>
References: <f08ba350803241921p6cb9132dkf4de71dcaca74b7@mail.gmail.com>
	<6368279b0803241923n7606ba98mb7d7f7010ecc6bc5@mail.gmail.com>
	<ea9161c50803241939h22255838l668047fe779faafe@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <f08ba350803242021o772c5fdcib6db8fa6df06605b@mail.gmail.com>

Thank you all for the much appreciated help, but it doesn't appear to
resolve the issue (aside from making it easier to clear my sessions, since I
can now just run DELETE against the database).

If I clear my session in the database, the error goes away.  If I install
the app, it works fine.  If I uninstall it and return to it, invariably, my
session key has become invalid again.  I understand that the app is not
installed (and parts of my app don't require installation) but I don't
understand why my session is "invalid."

As per the facebooker tutorial, I have a before_filter on all of my actions
that looks like this:

def setup_facebook_session
    set_facebook_session
    @current_facebook_session = facebook_session
end

I then interrogate that instance variable, which is then throwing the
exception when I access properties of the user.

Thanks,
Tom

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:39 PM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah,  storing sessions in cookies is problematic with facebook.
> The protect from forgery setting is necessary when doing ajax through the
> Facebook Proxy.
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Jatinder Singh <jatinder.saundh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > I was having this problem yesterday, but it got resolved after I
> > switched to Active Record session store.
> >
> >
> >
> > Jatinder
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Tom Lianza <tom at lianza.org> wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I'm having horrible problems with this exception, which seems to
> > happen as
> > > soon as I access the session object.  Does anyone know what the path
> > is to
> > > recover from this?  This post looked to be the most promising:
> > >
> > http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/facebooker-talk/2007-December/000047.html
> > >
> > > And I followed all of the steps except switching my session store, and
> > > modifying the default protect_from_forgery setting, as I wasn't
> > comfortable
> > > doing either just for the sake of this plugin.  In any case, I'd still
> > want
> > > to know how to handle this exception once it's thrown, since it
> > doesn't seem
> > > like the kind of thing that's totally fatal.
> > >
> > > As soon as I try to access the uid of the logged in user, I get this:
> > >
> > > Facebooker::Session::SessionExpired (Session key invalid or no longer
> > > valid):
> > >     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/parser.rb:386:in
> > `process'
> > >      /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/parser.rb:15:in `parse'
> > >     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/service.rb:13:in `post'
> > >     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/session.rb:399:in `post'
> > >      /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/models/user.rb:71:in
> > > `populate'
> > >     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/model.rb:35:in `uid'
> > >
> > > I'm trying to figure out how to recover, create a new session if this
> > one is
> > > invalid.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Tom
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > >  Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > >  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > >  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> > >
> > >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> >
>
>
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From mmangino at elevatedrails.com  Tue Mar 25 09:25:21 2008
From: mmangino at elevatedrails.com (Mike Mangino)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:25:21 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker::Session::SessionExpired (Session
	key invalid or no longer valid)
In-Reply-To: <f08ba350803242021o772c5fdcib6db8fa6df06605b@mail.gmail.com>
References: <f08ba350803241921p6cb9132dkf4de71dcaca74b7@mail.gmail.com>
	<6368279b0803241923n7606ba98mb7d7f7010ecc6bc5@mail.gmail.com>
	<ea9161c50803241939h22255838l668047fe779faafe@mail.gmail.com>
	<f08ba350803242021o772c5fdcib6db8fa6df06605b@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <507A277F-7B3F-4454-A110-4329E290EC93@elevatedrails.com>

That message means that the session you have stored is no longer  
valid. This typically happens when you are using the wrong session  
key. Are you sure that the session key you are using matches the one  
that came from Facebook for that user?

Mike


On Mar 24, 2008, at 10:21 PM, Tom Lianza wrote:
> Thank you all for the much appreciated help, but it doesn't appear  
> to resolve the issue (aside from making it easier to clear my  
> sessions, since I can now just run DELETE against the database).
>
> If I clear my session in the database, the error goes away.  If I  
> install the app, it works fine.  If I uninstall it and return to it,  
> invariably, my session key has become invalid again.  I understand  
> that the app is not installed (and parts of my app don't require  
> installation) but I don't understand why my session is "invalid."
>
> As per the facebooker tutorial, I have a before_filter on all of my  
> actions that looks like this:
>
> def setup_facebook_session
>     set_facebook_session
>     @current_facebook_session = facebook_session
> end
>
> I then interrogate that instance variable, which is then throwing  
> the exception when I access properties of the user.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:39 PM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> Yeah,  storing sessions in cookies is problematic with facebook.
>
> The protect from forgery setting is necessary when doing ajax  
> through the Facebook Proxy.
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Jatinder Singh <jatinder.saundh at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I was having this problem yesterday, but it got resolved after I
> switched to Active Record session store.
>
>
>
> Jatinder
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Tom Lianza <tom at lianza.org> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm having horrible problems with this exception, which seems to  
> happen as
> > soon as I access the session object.  Does anyone know what the  
> path is to
> > recover from this?  This post looked to be the most promising:
> > http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/facebooker-talk/2007-December/000047.html
> >
> > And I followed all of the steps except switching my session store,  
> and
> > modifying the default protect_from_forgery setting, as I wasn't  
> comfortable
> > doing either just for the sake of this plugin.  In any case, I'd  
> still want
> > to know how to handle this exception once it's thrown, since it  
> doesn't seem
> > like the kind of thing that's totally fatal.
> >
> > As soon as I try to access the uid of the logged in user, I get  
> this:
> >
> > Facebooker::Session::SessionExpired (Session key invalid or no  
> longer
> > valid):
> >     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/parser.rb:386:in  
> `process'
> >      /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/parser.rb:15:in  
> `parse'
> >     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/service.rb:13:in  
> `post'
> >     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/session.rb:399:in  
> `post'
> >      /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/models/user.rb:71:in
> > `populate'
> >     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/model.rb:35:in `uid'
> >
> > I'm trying to figure out how to recover, create a new session if  
> this one is
> > invalid.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Tom
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> >  Facebooker-talk mailing list
> >  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> >  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> >
> >
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk

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




From tom at lianza.org  Tue Mar 25 13:15:00 2008
From: tom at lianza.org (Tom Lianza)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:15:00 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker::Session::SessionExpired (Session
	key invalid or no longer valid)
In-Reply-To: <507A277F-7B3F-4454-A110-4329E290EC93@elevatedrails.com>
References: <f08ba350803241921p6cb9132dkf4de71dcaca74b7@mail.gmail.com>
	<6368279b0803241923n7606ba98mb7d7f7010ecc6bc5@mail.gmail.com>
	<ea9161c50803241939h22255838l668047fe779faafe@mail.gmail.com>
	<f08ba350803242021o772c5fdcib6db8fa6df06605b@mail.gmail.com>
	<507A277F-7B3F-4454-A110-4329E290EC93@elevatedrails.com>
Message-ID: <f08ba350803251015v62535581y60d1a8162fc57f52@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks for the response, Mike.

I'm fairly certain it's the request for that user, as I'm in development
mode and I'm the only user of the app.  Also, I run that before_filter on
*every* request to set the facebook session in an instance variable.  I was
following the pattern from the facebooker tutorial (rightly or wrongly).

I was hacking around and even put in a bit of logic to rescue from the
invalid session, and if so, attempt to create a new one.  It's not code I
want to keep in my app, but I was just trying to figure out if there exists
a way to rescue from this.  As it turns out, it still doesn't work.  The
plugin hands me an "invalid" session again.

begin
  fb_uid = @current_facebook_session.user.uid
rescue
  RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.error("Rescuing from error when accessing facebook
session: #{$!}")
  #delete anything we may have stored in the current rails session
  session.delete
  #call out to the plugin to make sure we get a fb session back
  set_facebook_session
  @current_facebook_session = facebook_session
end

I was under the impression that the plugin was supposed to be managing this,
but my mental model may be wrong.  I'm not sure to what extent our apps are
supposed to be managing/storing the session.  I think I heard someone
comment that they were putting the session id in the database with their
user model, but that didn't make a lot of sense to me (based on the metaphor
of what a "session" usually means).  Is that what people are doing?

Thanks!
Tom

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:25 AM, Mike Mangino <mmangino at elevatedrails.com>
wrote:

> That message means that the session you have stored is no longer
> valid. This typically happens when you are using the wrong session
> key. Are you sure that the session key you are using matches the one
> that came from Facebook for that user?
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Mar 24, 2008, at 10:21 PM, Tom Lianza wrote:
> > Thank you all for the much appreciated help, but it doesn't appear
> > to resolve the issue (aside from making it easier to clear my
> > sessions, since I can now just run DELETE against the database).
> >
> > If I clear my session in the database, the error goes away.  If I
> > install the app, it works fine.  If I uninstall it and return to it,
> > invariably, my session key has become invalid again.  I understand
> > that the app is not installed (and parts of my app don't require
> > installation) but I don't understand why my session is "invalid."
> >
> > As per the facebooker tutorial, I have a before_filter on all of my
> > actions that looks like this:
> >
> > def setup_facebook_session
> >     set_facebook_session
> >     @current_facebook_session = facebook_session
> > end
> >
> > I then interrogate that instance variable, which is then throwing
> > the exception when I access properties of the user.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tom
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:39 PM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > Yeah,  storing sessions in cookies is problematic with facebook.
> >
> > The protect from forgery setting is necessary when doing ajax
> > through the Facebook Proxy.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Jatinder Singh <
> jatinder.saundh at gmail.com
> > > wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I was having this problem yesterday, but it got resolved after I
> > switched to Active Record session store.
> >
> >
> >
> > Jatinder
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Tom Lianza <tom at lianza.org> wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I'm having horrible problems with this exception, which seems to
> > happen as
> > > soon as I access the session object.  Does anyone know what the
> > path is to
> > > recover from this?  This post looked to be the most promising:
> > >
> http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/facebooker-talk/2007-December/000047.html
> > >
> > > And I followed all of the steps except switching my session store,
> > and
> > > modifying the default protect_from_forgery setting, as I wasn't
> > comfortable
> > > doing either just for the sake of this plugin.  In any case, I'd
> > still want
> > > to know how to handle this exception once it's thrown, since it
> > doesn't seem
> > > like the kind of thing that's totally fatal.
> > >
> > > As soon as I try to access the uid of the logged in user, I get
> > this:
> > >
> > > Facebooker::Session::SessionExpired (Session key invalid or no
> > longer
> > > valid):
> > >     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/parser.rb:386:in
> > `process'
> > >      /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/parser.rb:15:in
> > `parse'
> > >     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/service.rb:13:in
> > `post'
> > >     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/session.rb:399:in
> > `post'
> > >      /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/models/user.rb:71:in
> > > `populate'
> > >     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/model.rb:35:in `uid'
> > >
> > > I'm trying to figure out how to recover, create a new session if
> > this one is
> > > invalid.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Tom
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > >  Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > >  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > >  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> > >
> > >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
> --
> Mike Mangino
> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>
>
>
>
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From digidigo at gmail.com  Tue Mar 25 13:45:11 2008
From: digidigo at gmail.com (David Clements)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:45:11 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker::Session::SessionExpired (Session
	key invalid or no longer valid)
In-Reply-To: <f08ba350803251015v62535581y60d1a8162fc57f52@mail.gmail.com>
References: <f08ba350803241921p6cb9132dkf4de71dcaca74b7@mail.gmail.com>
	<6368279b0803241923n7606ba98mb7d7f7010ecc6bc5@mail.gmail.com>
	<ea9161c50803241939h22255838l668047fe779faafe@mail.gmail.com>
	<f08ba350803242021o772c5fdcib6db8fa6df06605b@mail.gmail.com>
	<507A277F-7B3F-4454-A110-4329E290EC93@elevatedrails.com>
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Hey Tom,

The before filter that you sent before calls "set_facebook_session" -- you
don't need to do this, and I looked in the tutorial and I don't think I see
that anywhere. Can you point me to that?

If you are calling:

ensure_application_is_installed_by_facebook_user or
ensure_authenticated_to_facebook

facebooker will set up your facebook_session for you.  Also,  you
don't need to call user.uid, user.id should suffice.

Dave



On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Tom Lianza <tom at lianza.org> wrote:

> Thanks for the response, Mike.
>
> I'm fairly certain it's the request for that user, as I'm in development
> mode and I'm the only user of the app.  Also, I run that before_filter on
> *every* request to set the facebook session in an instance variable.  I was
> following the pattern from the facebooker tutorial (rightly or wrongly).
>
> I was hacking around and even put in a bit of logic to rescue from the
> invalid session, and if so, attempt to create a new one.  It's not code I
> want to keep in my app, but I was just trying to figure out if there exists
> a way to rescue from this.  As it turns out, it still doesn't work.  The
> plugin hands me an "invalid" session again.
>
> begin
>   fb_uid = @current_facebook_session.user.uid
> rescue
>   RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.error("Rescuing from error when accessing facebook
> session: #{$!}")
>   #delete anything we may have stored in the current rails session
>   session.delete
>   #call out to the plugin to make sure we get a fb session back
>   set_facebook_session
>   @current_facebook_session = facebook_session
> end
>
> I was under the impression that the plugin was supposed to be managing
> this, but my mental model may be wrong.  I'm not sure to what extent our
> apps are supposed to be managing/storing the session.  I think I heard
> someone comment that they were putting the session id in the database with
> their user model, but that didn't make a lot of sense to me (based on the
> metaphor of what a "session" usually means).  Is that what people are doing?
>
> Thanks!
> Tom
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:25 AM, Mike Mangino <mmangino at elevatedrails.com>
> wrote:
>
> > That message means that the session you have stored is no longer
> > valid. This typically happens when you are using the wrong session
> > key. Are you sure that the session key you are using matches the one
> > that came from Facebook for that user?
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > On Mar 24, 2008, at 10:21 PM, Tom Lianza wrote:
> > > Thank you all for the much appreciated help, but it doesn't appear
> > > to resolve the issue (aside from making it easier to clear my
> > > sessions, since I can now just run DELETE against the database).
> > >
> > > If I clear my session in the database, the error goes away.  If I
> > > install the app, it works fine.  If I uninstall it and return to it,
> > > invariably, my session key has become invalid again.  I understand
> > > that the app is not installed (and parts of my app don't require
> > > installation) but I don't understand why my session is "invalid."
> > >
> > > As per the facebooker tutorial, I have a before_filter on all of my
> > > actions that looks like this:
> > >
> > > def setup_facebook_session
> > >     set_facebook_session
> > >     @current_facebook_session = facebook_session
> > > end
> > >
> > > I then interrogate that instance variable, which is then throwing
> > > the exception when I access properties of the user.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Tom
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:39 PM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > Yeah,  storing sessions in cookies is problematic with facebook.
> > >
> > > The protect from forgery setting is necessary when doing ajax
> > > through the Facebook Proxy.
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Jatinder Singh <
> > jatinder.saundh at gmail.com
> > > > wrote:
> > > Hey,
> > >
> > > I was having this problem yesterday, but it got resolved after I
> > > switched to Active Record session store.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Jatinder
> > >
> > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Tom Lianza <tom at lianza.org> wrote:
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > I'm having horrible problems with this exception, which seems to
> > > happen as
> > > > soon as I access the session object.  Does anyone know what the
> > > path is to
> > > > recover from this?  This post looked to be the most promising:
> > > >
> > http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/facebooker-talk/2007-December/000047.html
> > > >
> > > > And I followed all of the steps except switching my session store,
> > > and
> > > > modifying the default protect_from_forgery setting, as I wasn't
> > > comfortable
> > > > doing either just for the sake of this plugin.  In any case, I'd
> > > still want
> > > > to know how to handle this exception once it's thrown, since it
> > > doesn't seem
> > > > like the kind of thing that's totally fatal.
> > > >
> > > > As soon as I try to access the uid of the logged in user, I get
> > > this:
> > > >
> > > > Facebooker::Session::SessionExpired (Session key invalid or no
> > > longer
> > > > valid):
> > > >     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/parser.rb:386:in
> > > `process'
> > > >      /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/parser.rb:15:in
> > > `parse'
> > > >     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/service.rb:13:in
> > > `post'
> > > >     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/session.rb:399:in
> > > `post'
> > > >      /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/models/user.rb:71:in
> > > > `populate'
> > > >     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/model.rb:35:in `uid'
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to figure out how to recover, create a new session if
> > > this one is
> > > > invalid.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > > Tom
> > > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > >  Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > > >  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > > >  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> > > >
> > > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> >
> > --
> > Mike Mangino
> > http://www.elevatedrails.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
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From digidigo at gmail.com  Tue Mar 25 14:03:11 2008
From: digidigo at gmail.com (David Clements)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:03:11 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] render not able to locate template in
	publisher
In-Reply-To: <6368279b0803241946s6a174de2ke4c8566a64f1083b@mail.gmail.com>
References: <6368279b0803241336l26689e2bvdf6d5ad9b355d21f@mail.gmail.com>
	<6368279b0803241946s6a174de2ke4c8566a64f1083b@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ea9161c50803251103h3a631b0ek19650beacc7c45b0@mail.gmail.com>

I just added a section on profiles to the facebooker tutorial, it isn't too
through but it might help.
http://apps.facebook.com/facebooker_tutorial/messaging/profile

The only differences I see are that my publisher is in RAILS_ROOT/lib and I
have the extenstions on the partial's paths, ( I don't remember why I did
that ).  I don't understand that initialize_template_class method so I don't
have any insight there.  But is there really a period after the last slash?
"/home/jatinder/rails_apps/app-name/app/views/."  that seems suspect.

BTW:  You don't need to have your publisher in the models directory in order
to use it in a model.

Dave

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Jatinder Singh <jatinder.saundh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I resolved this by replacing following line in method
> "initialize_template_class" of publisher.rb
>  returning ActionView::Base.new([template_root,File.join(template_root,
> self.class.controller_path)],
> assigns, self) do |template|
>
> with
>
>  path = ActionController::Base.view_paths rescue
> ActionController::Base.view_root
>  returning ActionView::Base.new(path, assigns, self) do |template|
>
> Anyone who has faced a similar problem before?
>
>
>
> Thanks
> Jatinder
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Jatinder Singh
> <jatinder.saundh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> >  I have a publisher called UserPublisher setup in models directory of
> >  my app. The reason I have it in a model is because its then possible
> >  for me to invoke publisher methods in after_callbacks of my other
> >  models, just the way we do it for ActionMailer.
> >
> >  My problem is that when I try to update a users profile specifying
> >  location of the view template as a paramater to "profile" method, it
> >  gives an error "ActionView::TemplateFinder::InvalidViewPath
> >  (Unprocessed view path found:
> >  "/home/jatinder/rails_apps/app-name/app/views/."
> >
> >  The call to profile method looks like this,
> >  profile render :partial => "/users/profile", :assigns => {:user =>
> >  user_to_be_updated }
> >
> >
> >  Anybody has a clue where could I be wrong?
> >
> >  Jatinder
> >
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
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From tom at lianza.org  Tue Mar 25 21:41:13 2008
From: tom at lianza.org (Tom Lianza)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:41:13 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker::Session::SessionExpired (Session
	key invalid or no longer valid)
In-Reply-To: <ea9161c50803251045t460f6cbfm8964e0a92a7e2782@mail.gmail.com>
References: <f08ba350803241921p6cb9132dkf4de71dcaca74b7@mail.gmail.com>
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	<ea9161c50803251045t460f6cbfm8964e0a92a7e2782@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <f08ba350803251841p3d58da77g1a38df29966a1608@mail.gmail.com>

I think I finally understand Facebook sessions:
http://www.inter-sections.net/2007/10/22/the-low-down-on-facebook-sessions/

As it turns out, when a user uninstalls your app, the session key becomes
invalid.  The key is an infinitely-timed as long as they have your app
installed.  However, it appears that even after a user uninstalls the app,
facebooker will continue to send that stale key.  I presume that's because
it has no way of knowing that the key has become stale (.expired? still
returns false).  I'm not sure if this is a facebooker bug or a limitation of
the facebook platform.

This is the issue I was bumping into.  The reason I'm probably hitting it
moreso than others is that I'm calling set_facebook_session separately from
ensure_application... etc.  The reason I'm doing *that* is because I'm using
RESTful authentication.  When a user hits my pages (either inside facebook
our outside) they get checked for authentication.  This is *different* from
requiring them to have an application installed.  If they're not
authenticated (and they're trying to do something that requires it), *then*
I call ensure_application... etc. But, not everything requires them to have
the application installed, so I don't call ensure_application... on every
request, but I do call set_facebook_session.

So, currently when I check the user, I just rescue
Facebooker::Session::SessionExpired, and assume when I encounter that, that
the user is not logged in (because they'd installed and removed the app).
Kinda gross, but seems to do the job.  I'm open to suggestions.  If nothing
else, I hope this post helps someone.

Thanks!
Tom

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:45 AM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Tom,
>
> The before filter that you sent before calls "set_facebook_session" -- you
> don't need to do this, and I looked in the tutorial and I don't think I see
> that anywhere. Can you point me to that?
>
> If you are calling:
>
> ensure_application_is_installed_by_facebook_user or ensure_authenticated_to_facebook
>
> facebooker will set up your facebook_session for you.  Also,  you don't need to call user.uid, user.id should suffice.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Tom Lianza <tom at lianza.org> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the response, Mike.
> >
> > I'm fairly certain it's the request for that user, as I'm in development
> > mode and I'm the only user of the app.  Also, I run that before_filter on
> > *every* request to set the facebook session in an instance variable.  I was
> > following the pattern from the facebooker tutorial (rightly or wrongly).
> >
> > I was hacking around and even put in a bit of logic to rescue from the
> > invalid session, and if so, attempt to create a new one.  It's not code I
> > want to keep in my app, but I was just trying to figure out if there exists
> > a way to rescue from this.  As it turns out, it still doesn't work.  The
> > plugin hands me an "invalid" session again.
> >
> > begin
> >   fb_uid = @current_facebook_session.user.uid
> > rescue
> >   RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.error("Rescuing from error when accessing
> > facebook session: #{$!}")
> >   #delete anything we may have stored in the current rails session
> >   session.delete
> >   #call out to the plugin to make sure we get a fb session back
> >   set_facebook_session
> >   @current_facebook_session = facebook_session
> > end
> >
> > I was under the impression that the plugin was supposed to be managing
> > this, but my mental model may be wrong.  I'm not sure to what extent our
> > apps are supposed to be managing/storing the session.  I think I heard
> > someone comment that they were putting the session id in the database with
> > their user model, but that didn't make a lot of sense to me (based on the
> > metaphor of what a "session" usually means).  Is that what people are doing?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Tom
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:25 AM, Mike Mangino <
> > mmangino at elevatedrails.com> wrote:
> >
> > > That message means that the session you have stored is no longer
> > > valid. This typically happens when you are using the wrong session
> > > key. Are you sure that the session key you are using matches the one
> > > that came from Facebook for that user?
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mar 24, 2008, at 10:21 PM, Tom Lianza wrote:
> > > > Thank you all for the much appreciated help, but it doesn't appear
> > > > to resolve the issue (aside from making it easier to clear my
> > > > sessions, since I can now just run DELETE against the database).
> > > >
> > > > If I clear my session in the database, the error goes away.  If I
> > > > install the app, it works fine.  If I uninstall it and return to it,
> > > > invariably, my session key has become invalid again.  I understand
> > > > that the app is not installed (and parts of my app don't require
> > > > installation) but I don't understand why my session is "invalid."
> > > >
> > > > As per the facebooker tutorial, I have a before_filter on all of my
> > > > actions that looks like this:
> > > >
> > > > def setup_facebook_session
> > > >     set_facebook_session
> > > >     @current_facebook_session = facebook_session
> > > > end
> > > >
> > > > I then interrogate that instance variable, which is then throwing
> > > > the exception when I access properties of the user.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Tom
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:39 PM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > Yeah,  storing sessions in cookies is problematic with facebook.
> > > >
> > > > The protect from forgery setting is necessary when doing ajax
> > > > through the Facebook Proxy.
> > > >
> > > > Dave
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:23 PM, Jatinder Singh <
> > > jatinder.saundh at gmail.com
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > Hey,
> > > >
> > > > I was having this problem yesterday, but it got resolved after I
> > > > switched to Active Record session store.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Jatinder
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Tom Lianza <tom at lianza.org> wrote:
> > > > > Hi All,
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm having horrible problems with this exception, which seems to
> > > > happen as
> > > > > soon as I access the session object.  Does anyone know what the
> > > > path is to
> > > > > recover from this?  This post looked to be the most promising:
> > > > >
> > > http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/facebooker-talk/2007-December/000047.html
> > > > >
> > > > > And I followed all of the steps except switching my session store,
> > > > and
> > > > > modifying the default protect_from_forgery setting, as I wasn't
> > > > comfortable
> > > > > doing either just for the sake of this plugin.  In any case, I'd
> > > > still want
> > > > > to know how to handle this exception once it's thrown, since it
> > > > doesn't seem
> > > > > like the kind of thing that's totally fatal.
> > > > >
> > > > > As soon as I try to access the uid of the logged in user, I get
> > > > this:
> > > > >
> > > > > Facebooker::Session::SessionExpired (Session key invalid or no
> > > > longer
> > > > > valid):
> > > > >     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/parser.rb:386:in
> > > > `process'
> > > > >      /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/parser.rb:15:in
> > > > `parse'
> > > > >     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/service.rb:13:in
> > > > `post'
> > > > >     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/session.rb:399:in
> > > > `post'
> > > > >
> > >  /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/models/user.rb:71:in
> > > > > `populate'
> > > > >     /vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/model.rb:35:in `uid'
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm trying to figure out how to recover, create a new session if
> > > > this one is
> > > > > invalid.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks!
> > > > > Tom
> > > > >
> > > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > >  Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > > > >  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > > > >  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > > > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > > > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mike Mangino
> > > http://www.elevatedrails.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> >
> >
>
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From sbwoodside at yahoo.com  Wed Mar 26 22:06:01 2008
From: sbwoodside at yahoo.com (S. Woodside)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:06:01 -0400
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] handling post-remove URL / uninstall of
	application
Message-ID: <9FBC55A9-995D-421E-94A2-965221C2EBDB@yahoo.com>

Hi there,

I've configured my post-remove URL (which has to be directly to my  
site, not an apps.facebook.com URL) and now I'm trying to figure out  
how to handle this. It's poorly documented here:
   http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Post-Remove_URL

It seems as though support for this is currently not yet in  
Facebooker. In order to get it to work, it would appear that  
facebooker's normal handling of logged in users doesn't apply here,  
because FB doesn't send the normal set of user information for this  
call. Instead it sends a custom POST. So first, I have to disable all  
my normal before_filters,

   ensure_application_is_installed_by_facebook_user [:except  
=> :post_remove]
   ensure_authenticated_to_facebook [:except => :post_remove]
   before_filter :get_user, :except => :post_remove

Now I've defined something like this in my controller:

   def post_remove
     if request.post?
       raise "Incorrect API Key" unless params['fb_sig_api_key'] ==  
Facebooker::Session.api_key #session[:facebook_session].api_key
       my_user = WebUser.find_by_facebook_uid params['fb_sig_user']
       WebUser.destroy my_user
     end
   end

Unfortunately the call to Facebooker::Session.api_key isn't working,  
below is my test code and the error. It's not strictly necessary, but  
helps with security I guess.

Also, I guess I will need to add the code from the wiki to verify the  
signature, in order to protect from hackers.

--simon

   def test_post_remove
     # First, make sure the user is there (not deleted)
     assert_not_nil WebUser.find_by_id( 1 )
     # Then, call post_remove on facebook controller
     post :post_remove, { "fb_sig_uninstall" => "1",
                           "fb_sig_time" => Time.now,
                           "fb_sig_user" => "1",
                           "fb_sig_profile_update_time" => nil,
                           "fb_sig_session_key" => nil,
                           "fb_sig_expires" => nil,
                           "fb_sig_api_key" => "<something>",
                           "fb_sig_added" => nil,
                           "fb_sig" => "something" }
     assert_nil WebUser.find_by_id( 1 ), "the web_user is still  
there, but should have been deleted"
   end


   1) Error:test_post_remove 
(FacebookControllerTest):Facebooker::Session::ConfigurationMissing:  
Could not find configuration information for api    vendor/plugins/ 
facebooker/lib/facebooker/session.rb:437:in  
`report_inability_to_find_key'    vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/ 
facebooker/session.rb:67:in `api_key'    app/controllers/ 
facebook_controller.rb:58:in `post_remove'



--
http://simonwoodside.com


From jonathan.otto at gmail.com  Thu Mar 27 00:44:26 2008
From: jonathan.otto at gmail.com (Jonathan Otto)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:44:26 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker updates
In-Reply-To: <C7BE9508-186A-4917-8B21-9E1707AF5A4B@elevatedrails.com>
References: <3945EF55-EBF0-4153-A5C7-10CE7710C62A@elevatedrails.com>
	<ea9161c50803141324h777496c4td1f95569ff7441d8@mail.gmail.com>
	<ea9161c50803141329j58bbcb39u83fd953bb463f7f4@mail.gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <b0e948460803262144h429cf20o54ab33eab14e5a2e@mail.gmail.com>

link_to_remote is working great. Access restful resources by
specifying :_method => :post or :get.

Now, remote_form_for is not putting fb_sig_is_ajax in the POST params,
so I suspect it is not working correctly. Has anyone else tested
remote_form_for?

Mike, thanks for your work here, this is a great addition.

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Mike Mangino
<mmangino at elevatedrails.com> wrote:
> Not directly. My version of it returns the response as JSON. Facebook
>  doesn't give any means of executing javascript, so none of the RJS
>  type features will work.
>
>  Mike
>
>
>
>  On Mar 14, 2008, at 3:29 PM, David Clements wrote:
>
>  > Hey Mike,
>  >
>  > Did you have any success getting new Ajax.Request to work?  This is
>  > the one that gets generated when you do an link_to_remote without
>  > the update => div_id.
>  >
>  > I could have sworn during some testing I did a few weeks ago that
>  > this would work if you wrapped your return RJS in <script> tags.
>  > But then I tried again and Facebook just politely deleted my whole
>  > rjs response.
>  >
>  > Dave
>  >
>  > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:24 PM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com>
>  > wrote:
>  > Sweet!! I was working on this as well.   I'll give it a try
>  >
>  >
>  > Thanks Mike,
>  > Dave
>  >
>  >
>  > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Mike Mangino <mmangino at elevatedrails.com
>  > > wrote:
>  > I just went through and cleaned out most of the bugs and patches. I
>  > also added a facebooker.js file that implements enough of prototype to
>  > do $() and link_to_remote with :update and remote_form_for
>  > with :update
>  >
>  > Let me know if you run into any issues with it.
>  >
>  > Mike
>  >
>  > --
>  > Mike Mangino
>  > http://www.elevatedrails.com
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > _______________________________________________
>  > Facebooker-talk mailing list
>  > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>  > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>  >
>  >
>
>  --
>  Mike Mangino
>  http://www.elevatedrails.com
>
>
>
>  _______________________________________________
>  Facebooker-talk mailing list
>  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>

From mmangino at elevatedrails.com  Thu Mar 27 09:21:54 2008
From: mmangino at elevatedrails.com (Mike Mangino)
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:21:54 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker updates
In-Reply-To: <b0e948460803262144h429cf20o54ab33eab14e5a2e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <3945EF55-EBF0-4153-A5C7-10CE7710C62A@elevatedrails.com>
	<ea9161c50803141324h777496c4td1f95569ff7441d8@mail.gmail.com>
	<ea9161c50803141329j58bbcb39u83fd953bb463f7f4@mail.gmail.com>
	<C7BE9508-186A-4917-8B21-9E1707AF5A4B@elevatedrails.com>
	<b0e948460803262144h429cf20o54ab33eab14e5a2e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <FEA233CA-F2E5-4E0D-A0F8-4B985D4B4996@elevatedrails.com>

Facebook puts fb_sig_is_ajax in the form, not facebooker.

Are you using :canvas=>false and including facebooker.js?

Mike

On Mar 26, 2008, at 11:44 PM, Jonathan Otto wrote:
> link_to_remote is working great. Access restful resources by
> specifying :_method => :post or :get.
>
> Now, remote_form_for is not putting fb_sig_is_ajax in the POST params,
> so I suspect it is not working correctly. Has anyone else tested
> remote_form_for?
>
> Mike, thanks for your work here, this is a great addition.
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Mike Mangino
> <mmangino at elevatedrails.com> wrote:
>> Not directly. My version of it returns the response as JSON. Facebook
>> doesn't give any means of executing javascript, so none of the RJS
>> type features will work.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 14, 2008, at 3:29 PM, David Clements wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Mike,
>>>
>>> Did you have any success getting new Ajax.Request to work?  This is
>>> the one that gets generated when you do an link_to_remote without
>>> the update => div_id.
>>>
>>> I could have sworn during some testing I did a few weeks ago that
>>> this would work if you wrapped your return RJS in <script> tags.
>>> But then I tried again and Facebook just politely deleted my whole
>>> rjs response.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:24 PM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> Sweet!! I was working on this as well.   I'll give it a try
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks Mike,
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Mike Mangino <mmangino at elevatedrails.com
>>>> wrote:
>>> I just went through and cleaned out most of the bugs and patches. I
>>> also added a facebooker.js file that implements enough of  
>>> prototype to
>>> do $() and link_to_remote with :update and remote_form_for
>>> with :update
>>>
>>> Let me know if you run into any issues with it.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mike Mangino
>>> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Facebooker-talk mailing list
>>> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Mike Mangino
>> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Facebooker-talk mailing list
>> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>>

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




From jonathan.otto at gmail.com  Thu Mar 27 12:35:25 2008
From: jonathan.otto at gmail.com (Jonathan Otto)
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:35:25 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Facebooker updates
In-Reply-To: <FEA233CA-F2E5-4E0D-A0F8-4B985D4B4996@elevatedrails.com>
References: <3945EF55-EBF0-4153-A5C7-10CE7710C62A@elevatedrails.com>
	<ea9161c50803141324h777496c4td1f95569ff7441d8@mail.gmail.com>
	<ea9161c50803141329j58bbcb39u83fd953bb463f7f4@mail.gmail.com>
	<C7BE9508-186A-4917-8B21-9E1707AF5A4B@elevatedrails.com>
	<b0e948460803262144h429cf20o54ab33eab14e5a2e@mail.gmail.com>
	<FEA233CA-F2E5-4E0D-A0F8-4B985D4B4996@elevatedrails.com>
Message-ID: <b0e948460803270935t295b4522o472e802fc06f5255@mail.gmail.com>

Yes, I am getting an error in Firebug that says the replace function
is not allowed.

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Mike Mangino
<mmangino at elevatedrails.com> wrote:
> Facebook puts fb_sig_is_ajax in the form, not facebooker.
>
>  Are you using :canvas=>false and including facebooker.js?
>
>  Mike
>
>
>
>  On Mar 26, 2008, at 11:44 PM, Jonathan Otto wrote:
>  > link_to_remote is working great. Access restful resources by
>  > specifying :_method => :post or :get.
>  >
>  > Now, remote_form_for is not putting fb_sig_is_ajax in the POST params,
>  > so I suspect it is not working correctly. Has anyone else tested
>  > remote_form_for?
>  >
>  > Mike, thanks for your work here, this is a great addition.
>  >
>  > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Mike Mangino
>  > <mmangino at elevatedrails.com> wrote:
>  >> Not directly. My version of it returns the response as JSON. Facebook
>  >> doesn't give any means of executing javascript, so none of the RJS
>  >> type features will work.
>  >>
>  >> Mike
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> On Mar 14, 2008, at 3:29 PM, David Clements wrote:
>  >>
>  >>> Hey Mike,
>  >>>
>  >>> Did you have any success getting new Ajax.Request to work?  This is
>  >>> the one that gets generated when you do an link_to_remote without
>  >>> the update => div_id.
>  >>>
>  >>> I could have sworn during some testing I did a few weeks ago that
>  >>> this would work if you wrapped your return RJS in <script> tags.
>  >>> But then I tried again and Facebook just politely deleted my whole
>  >>> rjs response.
>  >>>
>  >>> Dave
>  >>>
>  >>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:24 PM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com>
>  >>> wrote:
>  >>> Sweet!! I was working on this as well.   I'll give it a try
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>> Thanks Mike,
>  >>> Dave
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Mike Mangino <mmangino at elevatedrails.com
>  >>>> wrote:
>  >>> I just went through and cleaned out most of the bugs and patches. I
>  >>> also added a facebooker.js file that implements enough of
>  >>> prototype to
>  >>> do $() and link_to_remote with :update and remote_form_for
>  >>> with :update
>  >>>
>  >>> Let me know if you run into any issues with it.
>  >>>
>  >>> Mike
>  >>>
>  >>> --
>  >>> Mike Mangino
>  >>> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>> _______________________________________________
>  >>> Facebooker-talk mailing list
>  >>> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>  >>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>  >>>
>  >>>
>  >>
>  >> --
>  >> Mike Mangino
>  >> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>  >>
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> _______________________________________________
>  >> Facebooker-talk mailing list
>  >> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>  >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>  >>
>
>  --
>  Mike Mangino
>  http://www.elevatedrails.com
>
>
>
>

From deewdeew1 at gmail.com  Fri Mar 28 08:15:33 2008
From: deewdeew1 at gmail.com (Deew)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:15:33 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] undefined method 'alias_method_chain'
Message-ID: <ae6780bc0803280515w6b5f51c4q456c45651fa9084d@mail.gmail.com>

Running Rails 2.0.2, I get this error:


./script/../config/../vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/rails/facebook_url_rewriting.rb:29:
undefined method `alias_method_chain' for
ActionController::UrlRewriter:Class (NoMethodError)
 from /usr/local/rubygems/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`gem_original_require'
 from /usr/local/rubygems/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
`require'
 from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:147:in
`require'
 from script/../config/../vendor/plugins/facebooker/init.rb:3:in `load_plugin'
 from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:348:in
`load_plugin'
 from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/kernel/reporting.rb:11:in
`silence_warnings'
 from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:348:in
`load_plugin'
 from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:158:in
`load_plugins'
 ... 6 levels...
 from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/commands/generate.rb:1:in
`require'
 from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/commands/generate.rb:1
 from script/generate:3:in `require'
 from script/generate:3

Anyone know what is happening?

From jonathan.otto at gmail.com  Fri Mar 28 12:48:13 2008
From: jonathan.otto at gmail.com (Jonathan Otto)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:48:13 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] undefined method 'alias_method_chain'
In-Reply-To: <ae6780bc0803280515w6b5f51c4q456c45651fa9084d@mail.gmail.com>
References: <ae6780bc0803280515w6b5f51c4q456c45651fa9084d@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <b0e948460803280948m3032f73al81d272fd4a747db2@mail.gmail.com>

Did you write any of your own code, or did that happen after simply
installing the plugin?

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 7:15 AM, Deew <deewdeew1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Running Rails 2.0.2, I get this error:
>
>
>  ./script/../config/../vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/rails/facebook_url_rewriting.rb:29:
>  undefined method `alias_method_chain' for
>  ActionController::UrlRewriter:Class (NoMethodError)
>   from /usr/local/rubygems/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
>  `gem_original_require'
>   from /usr/local/rubygems/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in
>  `require'
>   from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:147:in
>  `require'
>   from script/../config/../vendor/plugins/facebooker/init.rb:3:in `load_plugin'
>   from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:348:in
>  `load_plugin'
>   from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/../../activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/kernel/reporting.rb:11:in
>  `silence_warnings'
>   from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:348:in
>  `load_plugin'
>   from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb:158:in
>  `load_plugins'
>   ... 6 levels...
>   from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/commands/generate.rb:1:in
>  `require'
>   from ./script/../config/../vendor/rails/railties/lib/commands/generate.rb:1
>   from script/generate:3:in `require'
>   from script/generate:3
>
>  Anyone know what is happening?
>  _______________________________________________
>  Facebooker-talk mailing list
>  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>

From jonathan.otto at gmail.com  Sun Mar 30 03:02:23 2008
From: jonathan.otto at gmail.com (Jonathan Otto)
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:02:23 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] javascript confirm function in FBJS
Message-ID: <b0e948460803300002u40881f76n3080c198a3183ece@mail.gmail.com>

I'd like to add the :confirm option in the link_to_remote and replace
the missing confirm function with Facebook's Dialogs.

function confirm(text) {
dlg = new Dialog(Dialog.DIALOG_CONTEXTUAL).showChoice('Confirm
Request', text , 'Yes', 'No');
dlg.onconfirm = function() { return true; };
dlg.oncancel = function() { return false; };
}

The above code doesn't work because confirm needs to return true or
false as seen below:

if (confirm('Really delete this record?')) { new Ajax.Updater ...

So, is there a way to make the onconfirm event listener return true to
the confirm function so we can use the :confirm nicely in the
link_to_remote tags? Has anyone else found a different way to handle
this?

From tobyhede at info-architects.net  Sun Mar 30 08:30:01 2008
From: tobyhede at info-architects.net (Toby Hede)
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:30:01 +1100
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] undefined method using ensure_authenticated
Message-ID: <ab8fbadc0803300530h49854319vf8c24c3fd680dfac@mail.gmail.com>

I've stepped through the basics of setting up facebooker, but I
consistently see this message:

"undefined local variable or method `ensure_authenticated_to_facebook'
for FacebookController:Class"

My controller is defined:

<<
class FacebookController < ApplicationController

 ensure_authenticated_to_facebook

 def index
 @facebook_user = session[:facebook_session].user
 end

end
>>

I have this route:
<<
  map.root :controller => "facebook"
>>

I am using facebooker as a plugin inside my Rails app.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am really stumped on this one.

Toby Hede

From nick.a.holland at gmail.com  Mon Mar 31 01:26:11 2008
From: nick.a.holland at gmail.com (Nick Holland)
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:26:11 -0700
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Problems with *_path() and *_url() helpers when
	using Publisher
Message-ID: <356d86490803302226u2782ee19nc36de5259f8a6b1d@mail.gmail.com>

Hello,

I am running into issues using *_path() and *_url() helpers the
Facebooker Publisher framework. I encounter the following error when
using these helpers while *inside of a partial*:

undefined method `default_url_options' for ActionView::Base:Class

I've seen a few other people speak about this issue, yet I haven't
seen any resolution on the mailing list yet. Here is an example stub
method that I am using the partial in:

 def simple_notification(event_data, partial_name)
    send_as :notification
    from event_data[:user]
    recipients event_data[:target_uids]
    fbml render(:partial => "event/notification/" + partial_name,
:event => event_data[:event])
  end

Note, _path() and _url() helpers work flawlessly from the
simple_notification method's context, but fails miserably inside the
partial. I assume this issue also exists with asset helpers.

Any ideas? Am I missing something?

Thanks,
Nick Holland.

From jonathan.otto at gmail.com  Mon Mar 31 13:28:28 2008
From: jonathan.otto at gmail.com (Jonathan Otto)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:28:28 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] request for change in URL pointing to facebook
	domain
Message-ID: <b0e948460803311028t5f8f67e8qb64713f8083a4819@mail.gmail.com>

I am requesting that we change the paths that absolutely point to the
facebook URL.

In the PHP client there is a method in the facebook.php file called
get_facebook_url() so this is easy to change there.

One reason for this:

Ringside Networks is a drop in replacement for Facebook that can be
used for localhost development and eventually an abstraction for most
social networks - it mimics the Facebook API so the Facebooker client
works except for the URLs pointing to the Facebook domain. I have
changes ready if Mike Mangino or anyone else is willing to commit
them.

http://wiki.ringsidenetworks.org/display/ringside/Home

From digidigo at gmail.com  Mon Mar 31 13:39:20 2008
From: digidigo at gmail.com (David Clements)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:39:20 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] request for change in URL pointing to
	facebook domain
In-Reply-To: <b0e948460803311028t5f8f67e8qb64713f8083a4819@mail.gmail.com>
References: <b0e948460803311028t5f8f67e8qb64713f8083a4819@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <ea9161c50803311039g260cab3dj45d746171d87ea5a@mail.gmail.com>

Can you submit this as a patch, with tests,  I have  a  bebo adapter that I
have been working on so I can take a look and see if it fits in with that,
as I have had similar issues.

Dave


On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am requesting that we change the paths that absolutely point to the
> facebook URL.
>
> In the PHP client there is a method in the facebook.php file called
> get_facebook_url() so this is easy to change there.
>
> One reason for this:
>
> Ringside Networks is a drop in replacement for Facebook that can be
> used for localhost development and eventually an abstraction for most
> social networks - it mimics the Facebook API so the Facebooker client
> works except for the URLs pointing to the Facebook domain. I have
> changes ready if Mike Mangino or anyone else is willing to commit
> them.
>
> http://wiki.ringsidenetworks.org/display/ringside/Home
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
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From mmangino at elevatedrails.com  Mon Mar 31 16:03:50 2008
From: mmangino at elevatedrails.com (Mike Mangino)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:03:50 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] Problems with *_path() and *_url() helpers
	when using Publisher
In-Reply-To: <356d86490803302226u2782ee19nc36de5259f8a6b1d@mail.gmail.com>
References: <356d86490803302226u2782ee19nc36de5259f8a6b1d@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <8B90EA07-76C6-4EC5-8CE1-BF3E9148A087@elevatedrails.com>

Are you on the latest version of Facebooker? I know I fixed a few  
issues in this area recently.

Otherwise, can you give some of the error messages?

Mike

On Mar 31, 2008, at 12:26 AM, Nick Holland wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running into issues using *_path() and *_url() helpers the
> Facebooker Publisher framework. I encounter the following error when
> using these helpers while *inside of a partial*:
>
> undefined method `default_url_options' for ActionView::Base:Class
>
> I've seen a few other people speak about this issue, yet I haven't
> seen any resolution on the mailing list yet. Here is an example stub
> method that I am using the partial in:
>
> def simple_notification(event_data, partial_name)
>    send_as :notification
>    from event_data[:user]
>    recipients event_data[:target_uids]
>    fbml render(:partial => "event/notification/" + partial_name,
> :event => event_data[:event])
>  end
>
> Note, _path() and _url() helpers work flawlessly from the
> simple_notification method's context, but fails miserably inside the
> partial. I assume this issue also exists with asset helpers.
>
> Any ideas? Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks,
> Nick Holland.
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk

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




From jonathan.otto at gmail.com  Mon Mar 31 16:53:22 2008
From: jonathan.otto at gmail.com (Jonathan Otto)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:53:22 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] request for change in URL pointing to
	facebook domain
In-Reply-To: <ea9161c50803311039g260cab3dj45d746171d87ea5a@mail.gmail.com>
References: <b0e948460803311028t5f8f67e8qb64713f8083a4819@mail.gmail.com>
	<ea9161c50803311039g260cab3dj45d746171d87ea5a@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <b0e948460803311353g49d44d8bu5e915aa331cab358@mail.gmail.com>

Dave, since the URLs will no longer be static are you still using ruby
constants to store the URLs? Right now I am grabbing the URL
configuration from facebooker.yml and storing them into the ENV
constant array at the end of init.rb.

But this doesn't work during tests.

For example in session_test.rb's setup method, I set the ENV array
(like I do in init.rb) right before calling the
Facebook::Session.create, but the Facebooker::Session class can't see
ENV. I'm assuming there is a better way of handling this. Let me know
if any of you have any suggestions. I'll complete the test.

These are the constants I am talking about:

    APPS_SERVER_BASE_URL      = ENV['APPS_SERVER_BASE_URL'] ||
"apps.facebook.com"
    API_SERVER_BASE_URL       = ENV['API_SERVER_BASE_URL'] || "api.facebook.com"
    API_PATH_REST             = ENV['API_PATH_REST'] || "/restserver.php"
    WWW_SERVER_BASE_URL       = ENV['WWW_SERVER_BASE_URL'] || "www.facebook.com"
    WWW_PATH_LOGIN            = ENV['WWW_PATH_LOGIN'] || "/login.php"
    WWW_PATH_ADD              = ENV['WWW_PATH_ADD'] || "/add.php"
    WWW_PATH_INSTALL          = ENV['WWW_PATH_INSTALL'] || "/install.php"

Right now that code is in session.rb. It seems the best way to do this
is to allow people to set these parameters in the facebooker.yml
optionally, and if they are not set then it defaults to Facebook
addresses. I just don't know the best way to make the configuration
portable.

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:39 PM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can you submit this as a patch, with tests,  I have  a  bebo adapter that I
> have been working on so I can take a look and see if it fits in with that,
> as I have had similar issues.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
>  On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > I am requesting that we change the paths that absolutely point to the
> > facebook URL.
> >
> > In the PHP client there is a method in the facebook.php file called
> > get_facebook_url() so this is easy to change there.
> >
> > One reason for this:
> >
> > Ringside Networks is a drop in replacement for Facebook that can be
> > used for localhost development and eventually an abstraction for most
> > social networks - it mimics the Facebook API so the Facebooker client
> > works except for the URLs pointing to the Facebook domain. I have
> > changes ready if Mike Mangino or anyone else is willing to commit
> > them.
> >
> > http://wiki.ringsidenetworks.org/display/ringside/Home
> > _______________________________________________
> > Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> >
>
>

From david.g.clements at gmail.com  Mon Mar 31 18:57:44 2008
From: david.g.clements at gmail.com (David Clements)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:57:44 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] request for change in URL pointing to
	facebook domain
In-Reply-To: <b0e948460803311353g49d44d8bu5e915aa331cab358@mail.gmail.com>
References: <b0e948460803311028t5f8f67e8qb64713f8083a4819@mail.gmail.com>
	<ea9161c50803311039g260cab3dj45d746171d87ea5a@mail.gmail.com>
	<b0e948460803311353g49d44d8bu5e915aa331cab358@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <78833CF6-8F78-4EC0-BDC2-E960264A9C44@gmail.com>

For Bebo, I subclassed Facebooker::Session into a BeboSession.  And  
then monkey patched all the calls that use constants.  The ENV  
approach doesn't work for Bebo since iI am running Facebook and Bebo  
and Web in the same app.

I have been thinking that this could be generalized more possibly into  
facebooker.yml or some other YAML.  I was thinking that the whole  
configuration could be keyed off of the api_key that gets sent with  
the request.  That way you could actually run more than one facebook  
app in the same rails instance.

How does this Ringside Networks work?  Do you assign an API KEY?

Thanks,

Dave


On Mar 31, 2008, at 2:53 PM, Jonathan Otto wrote:

> Dave, since the URLs will no longer be static are you still using ruby
> constants to store the URLs? Right now I am grabbing the URL
> configuration from facebooker.yml and storing them into the ENV
> constant array at the end of init.rb.
>
> But this doesn't work during tests.
>
> For example in session_test.rb's setup method, I set the ENV array
> (like I do in init.rb) right before calling the
> Facebook::Session.create, but the Facebooker::Session class can't see
> ENV. I'm assuming there is a better way of handling this. Let me know
> if any of you have any suggestions. I'll complete the test.
>
> These are the constants I am talking about:
>
>    APPS_SERVER_BASE_URL      = ENV['APPS_SERVER_BASE_URL'] ||
> "apps.facebook.com"
>    API_SERVER_BASE_URL       = ENV['API_SERVER_BASE_URL'] ||  
> "api.facebook.com"
>    API_PATH_REST             = ENV['API_PATH_REST'] || "/ 
> restserver.php"
>    WWW_SERVER_BASE_URL       = ENV['WWW_SERVER_BASE_URL'] || "www.facebook.com 
> "
>    WWW_PATH_LOGIN            = ENV['WWW_PATH_LOGIN'] || "/login.php"
>    WWW_PATH_ADD              = ENV['WWW_PATH_ADD'] || "/add.php"
>    WWW_PATH_INSTALL          = ENV['WWW_PATH_INSTALL'] || "/ 
> install.php"
>
> Right now that code is in session.rb. It seems the best way to do this
> is to allow people to set these parameters in the facebooker.yml
> optionally, and if they are not set then it defaults to Facebook
> addresses. I just don't know the best way to make the configuration
> portable.
>
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:39 PM, David Clements  
> <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Can you submit this as a patch, with tests,  I have  a  bebo  
>> adapter that I
>> have been working on so I can take a look and see if it fits in  
>> with that,
>> as I have had similar issues.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com 
>> >
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I am requesting that we change the paths that absolutely point to  
>>> the
>>> facebook URL.
>>>
>>> In the PHP client there is a method in the facebook.php file called
>>> get_facebook_url() so this is easy to change there.
>>>
>>> One reason for this:
>>>
>>> Ringside Networks is a drop in replacement for Facebook that can be
>>> used for localhost development and eventually an abstraction for  
>>> most
>>> social networks - it mimics the Facebook API so the Facebooker  
>>> client
>>> works except for the URLs pointing to the Facebook domain. I have
>>> changes ready if Mike Mangino or anyone else is willing to commit
>>> them.
>>>
>>> http://wiki.ringsidenetworks.org/display/ringside/Home
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Facebooker-talk mailing list
>>> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>>>
>>
>>


From mmangino at elevatedrails.com  Mon Mar 31 20:02:57 2008
From: mmangino at elevatedrails.com (Mike Mangino)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:02:57 -0500
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] request for change in URL pointing to
	facebook domain
In-Reply-To: <78833CF6-8F78-4EC0-BDC2-E960264A9C44@gmail.com>
References: <b0e948460803311028t5f8f67e8qb64713f8083a4819@mail.gmail.com>
	<ea9161c50803311039g260cab3dj45d746171d87ea5a@mail.gmail.com>
	<b0e948460803311353g49d44d8bu5e915aa331cab358@mail.gmail.com>
	<78833CF6-8F78-4EC0-BDC2-E960264A9C44@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <90B82FDD-61B9-40F6-9B9A-80921FB714BA@elevatedrails.com>

Why not just make the constants be class methods on the session? Then  
you just need to worry about creating the right kind of session and  
all of the other calls will magically work. Does that sound sane?

We should take every magic constant and turn it into a call on the  
session.

Mike

On Mar 31, 2008, at 5:57 PM, David Clements wrote:
> For Bebo, I subclassed Facebooker::Session into a BeboSession.  And
> then monkey patched all the calls that use constants.  The ENV
> approach doesn't work for Bebo since iI am running Facebook and Bebo
> and Web in the same app.
>
> I have been thinking that this could be generalized more possibly into
> facebooker.yml or some other YAML.  I was thinking that the whole
> configuration could be keyed off of the api_key that gets sent with
> the request.  That way you could actually run more than one facebook
> app in the same rails instance.
>
> How does this Ringside Networks work?  Do you assign an API KEY?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Mar 31, 2008, at 2:53 PM, Jonathan Otto wrote:
>
>> Dave, since the URLs will no longer be static are you still using  
>> ruby
>> constants to store the URLs? Right now I am grabbing the URL
>> configuration from facebooker.yml and storing them into the ENV
>> constant array at the end of init.rb.
>>
>> But this doesn't work during tests.
>>
>> For example in session_test.rb's setup method, I set the ENV array
>> (like I do in init.rb) right before calling the
>> Facebook::Session.create, but the Facebooker::Session class can't see
>> ENV. I'm assuming there is a better way of handling this. Let me know
>> if any of you have any suggestions. I'll complete the test.
>>
>> These are the constants I am talking about:
>>
>>   APPS_SERVER_BASE_URL      = ENV['APPS_SERVER_BASE_URL'] ||
>> "apps.facebook.com"
>>   API_SERVER_BASE_URL       = ENV['API_SERVER_BASE_URL'] ||
>> "api.facebook.com"
>>   API_PATH_REST             = ENV['API_PATH_REST'] || "/
>> restserver.php"
>>   WWW_SERVER_BASE_URL       = ENV['WWW_SERVER_BASE_URL'] || "www.facebook.com
>> "
>>   WWW_PATH_LOGIN            = ENV['WWW_PATH_LOGIN'] || "/login.php"
>>   WWW_PATH_ADD              = ENV['WWW_PATH_ADD'] || "/add.php"
>>   WWW_PATH_INSTALL          = ENV['WWW_PATH_INSTALL'] || "/
>> install.php"
>>
>> Right now that code is in session.rb. It seems the best way to do  
>> this
>> is to allow people to set these parameters in the facebooker.yml
>> optionally, and if they are not set then it defaults to Facebook
>> addresses. I just don't know the best way to make the configuration
>> portable.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:39 PM, David Clements
>> <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Can you submit this as a patch, with tests,  I have  a  bebo
>>> adapter that I
>>> have been working on so I can take a look and see if it fits in
>>> with that,
>>> as I have had similar issues.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com
>>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am requesting that we change the paths that absolutely point to
>>>> the
>>>> facebook URL.
>>>>
>>>> In the PHP client there is a method in the facebook.php file called
>>>> get_facebook_url() so this is easy to change there.
>>>>
>>>> One reason for this:
>>>>
>>>> Ringside Networks is a drop in replacement for Facebook that can be
>>>> used for localhost development and eventually an abstraction for
>>>> most
>>>> social networks - it mimics the Facebook API so the Facebooker
>>>> client
>>>> works except for the URLs pointing to the Facebook domain. I have
>>>> changes ready if Mike Mangino or anyone else is willing to commit
>>>> them.
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.ringsidenetworks.org/display/ringside/Home
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Facebooker-talk mailing list
>>>> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>>>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk

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




From david.g.clements at gmail.com  Mon Mar 31 21:21:00 2008
From: david.g.clements at gmail.com (David Clements)
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:21:00 -0600
Subject: [Facebooker-talk] request for change in URL pointing to
	facebook domain
In-Reply-To: <90B82FDD-61B9-40F6-9B9A-80921FB714BA@elevatedrails.com>
References: <b0e948460803311028t5f8f67e8qb64713f8083a4819@mail.gmail.com>
	<ea9161c50803311039g260cab3dj45d746171d87ea5a@mail.gmail.com>
	<b0e948460803311353g49d44d8bu5e915aa331cab358@mail.gmail.com>
	<78833CF6-8F78-4EC0-BDC2-E960264A9C44@gmail.com>
	<90B82FDD-61B9-40F6-9B9A-80921FB714BA@elevatedrails.com>
Message-ID: <ECF3588F-8E89-4B65-A2BE-A235641F536A@gmail.com>

This is basically how the Bebo adapter works.  I can take a look at  
this refactoring tomorrow.

Dave

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 31, 2008, at 6:02 PM, Mike Mangino <mmangino at elevatedrails.com>  
wrote:

> Why not just make the constants be class methods on the session?  
> Then you just need to worry about creating the right kind of session  
> and all of the other calls will magically work. Does that sound sane?
>
> We should take every magic constant and turn it into a call on the  
> session.
>
> Mike
>
> On Mar 31, 2008, at 5:57 PM, David Clements wrote:
>> For Bebo, I subclassed Facebooker::Session into a BeboSession.  And
>> then monkey patched all the calls that use constants.  The ENV
>> approach doesn't work for Bebo since iI am running Facebook and Bebo
>> and Web in the same app.
>>
>> I have been thinking that this could be generalized more possibly  
>> into
>> facebooker.yml or some other YAML.  I was thinking that the whole
>> configuration could be keyed off of the api_key that gets sent with
>> the request.  That way you could actually run more than one facebook
>> app in the same rails instance.
>>
>> How does this Ringside Networks work?  Do you assign an API KEY?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>> On Mar 31, 2008, at 2:53 PM, Jonathan Otto wrote:
>>
>>> Dave, since the URLs will no longer be static are you still using  
>>> ruby
>>> constants to store the URLs? Right now I am grabbing the URL
>>> configuration from facebooker.yml and storing them into the ENV
>>> constant array at the end of init.rb.
>>>
>>> But this doesn't work during tests.
>>>
>>> For example in session_test.rb's setup method, I set the ENV array
>>> (like I do in init.rb) right before calling the
>>> Facebook::Session.create, but the Facebooker::Session class can't  
>>> see
>>> ENV. I'm assuming there is a better way of handling this. Let me  
>>> know
>>> if any of you have any suggestions. I'll complete the test.
>>>
>>> These are the constants I am talking about:
>>>
>>>  APPS_SERVER_BASE_URL      = ENV['APPS_SERVER_BASE_URL'] ||
>>> "apps.facebook.com"
>>>  API_SERVER_BASE_URL       = ENV['API_SERVER_BASE_URL'] ||
>>> "api.facebook.com"
>>>  API_PATH_REST             = ENV['API_PATH_REST'] || "/
>>> restserver.php"
>>>  WWW_SERVER_BASE_URL       = ENV['WWW_SERVER_BASE_URL'] || "www.facebook.com
>>> "
>>>  WWW_PATH_LOGIN            = ENV['WWW_PATH_LOGIN'] || "/login.php"
>>>  WWW_PATH_ADD              = ENV['WWW_PATH_ADD'] || "/add.php"
>>>  WWW_PATH_INSTALL          = ENV['WWW_PATH_INSTALL'] || "/
>>> install.php"
>>>
>>> Right now that code is in session.rb. It seems the best way to do  
>>> this
>>> is to allow people to set these parameters in the facebooker.yml
>>> optionally, and if they are not set then it defaults to Facebook
>>> addresses. I just don't know the best way to make the configuration
>>> portable.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:39 PM, David Clements
>>> <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Can you submit this as a patch, with tests,  I have  a  bebo
>>>> adapter that I
>>>> have been working on so I can take a look and see if it fits in
>>>> with that,
>>>> as I have had similar issues.
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Jonathan Otto <jonathan.otto at gmail.com
>>>>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am requesting that we change the paths that absolutely point to
>>>>> the
>>>>> facebook URL.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the PHP client there is a method in the facebook.php file  
>>>>> called
>>>>> get_facebook_url() so this is easy to change there.
>>>>>
>>>>> One reason for this:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ringside Networks is a drop in replacement for Facebook that can  
>>>>> be
>>>>> used for localhost development and eventually an abstraction for
>>>>> most
>>>>> social networks - it mimics the Facebook API so the Facebooker
>>>>> client
>>>>> works except for the URLs pointing to the Facebook domain. I have
>>>>> changes ready if Mike Mangino or anyone else is willing to commit
>>>>> them.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://wiki.ringsidenetworks.org/display/ringside/Home
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Facebooker-talk mailing list
>>>>> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>>>>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Facebooker-talk mailing list
>> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>
> --
> Mike Mangino
> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>
>
>