[Facebooker-talk] New status_id in Facebook API - FIX

[Mike Mangino]

On Nov 26, 2008, at 10:07 AM, Perryn Fowler wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have recently returned to a pet facebook project that I had let sit
> idle for quite a while, so I am probably using a version of facebooker
> that is at least a year old.
>
> Nevertheless it was working up until a few hours ago... and then I
> started to have problems
>
> 1) First  I started to get the 'undefined method `status_id=' error
> mentioned in this thread.
>
> Then, shortly afterwards I started getting
>
> 2) Facebooker::Session::SessionExpired (Session key invalid or no  
> longer valid):
>
> which I assume is something to do with facebook's recent changes to
> the session key format.
>
> My app is not 'live' yet so this is not that big a deal, but it raises
> a few questions for me that hopefully some more experienced
> facebookerers can comment on
>
> 1) Does facebook make a habit of breaking stuff like this? One my app
> goes live am I going to have to monitor it constantly to see if its
> still working?

Yes, Facebook breaks things quite often. It's a real pain.

>
>
> 2) I know I am using an old version of facebooker, but it looks like
> the latest official release was in February, so I assume it would not
> contain fixes for my current problems. Should I be trying to check out
> from head or something?

Check out the new version on github. It has a bunch of changes

>
>
> 3) Do most people ride the 'edge' of facebooker in order to pick up
> the latest fixes for stuff like this?


With as frequently as Facebook changes I think most people just use  
the git tree. We haven't really been doing releases all that often. I  
will start doing them more often once I get the github gem generation  
working.

Mike

>
>
> cheers
> Perryn
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