[Facebooker-talk] fb_comments and fb_board not working

[Zhao Lu]

Hmm that shouldn't be the case.  I had to internally store the comments
because I wanted to be able to search them.  As far as discussion board
goes, I'd really love to use the fbml rather than implementing it.

Since I'm new to this whole rails thing, all I can think of is to look at the
test cases (rails app should be well tested, right?).  I found a bunch
of tests under
vendor/plugins/facebooker/test/.  rails_integration_test.rb
contains some test cases on comments and fb_board.  I was hoping to figure
out the usage of them by merely looking at the test case.  I'm not sure if
you've looked at those and if they're helpful to you.
I figured if they aren't then it means the test coverage can be improved.  So
you (or facebooker users like us) could probably improve it by adding new test
cases, which should also help with debugging our problems as well.

Zhao

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Allen Walker <auswalk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sadly, to do comments I had to implement what you have done, which
> theoretically is much harder than just using the built in facebook comments
> tag. Now that I wish to use a discussion board, it really behooves me to
> figure this out b/c a discussion board is much more advanced than just
> comments.
>
> Zhao Lu wrote:
>>
>> you are ahead of me, again.
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Allen Walker <auswalk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Actually I'm not even doing that. You are internally storing you own
>>> comments.
>>>
>>> I'm simply attempting to use facebooks built in servers to run my
>>> dicussion
>>> boards and comments via the <fb:board> and <fb:comments> code. It should
>>> be
>>> rather trivial and for some reason it's not working. It must have
>>> something
>>> to do with how facebook is reading the URL and not correctly mapping it
>>> to
>>> the xid.
>>>
>>> Zhao Lu wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I haven't tried fb_board but I did get fb_comment working.  The
>>>> instruction in the beta _book_ wasn't quite
>>>> complete and I had to look at the source code for chapter 8 to get
>>>> things working.  I had the same problem
>>>> with you (or at least I think it's the same problem).  Basically I
>>>> type some comment in the text area and click
>>>> submit and nothing 'happens'.  When I look into the database table the
>>>> new comment is there so what I was
>>>> missing was to pull the comments out from the table and display them.
>>>>
>>>> My code structure is pretty much the same as karate poke.  I have this
>>>> code snippet in my view:
>>>>
>>>> <% form_for Comment.new do %>
>>>>  Comment on gifts: <br />
>>>>  <%= text_area_tag :body %> <br />
>>>>  <%= hidden_field_tag :comment_receiver, @user.id %>
>>>>  <%= submit_tag 'Post' %>
>>>> <% end %>
>>>>
>>>> <div id="all_comments">
>>>>  <%= render :partial=>"comments/comments" %>
>>>> </div>
>>>>
>>>> I was missing the <div>...</div> portion before.  Do you have that and
>>>> the _comments.erb partial in place?
>>>>
>>>> Zhao
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Allen Walker <auswalk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It would sure be nice if these would work.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have the following in my home controller:
>>>>>
>>>>> <%= fb_board("golf_board1") %>
>>>>>
>>>>> it renders:
>>>>>
>>>>> <fb:board xid="golf_board1" />
>>>>>
>>>>> The discussion board shows on my page, but when I click start new
>>>>> topic,
>>>>> it
>>>>> reloads the previous URL (default callback) and continues to display
>>>>> "Start
>>>>> new topic".
>>>>>
>>>>> fb_comments does the same thing.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Btw my URL is this after clicking "start new topic"
>>>>>
>>>>> http://apps.new.facebook.com/myapp/?fbapp_ec=751
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>
>>>>>
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Zhao