[Facebooker-talk] fb_comments and fb_board not working

Thu Sep 4 13:00:12 EDT 2008

Hmm. well what if you used the same xid on different pages. I wouldn't think
it would pull in the comments from  the other page right?

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:56 AM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not sure about that.  I don't set the url in the tutorial at all.  Each
> lesson has it own comment block with just and xid.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Allen Walker <auswalk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah I've looked at that tutorial. It's very straightforward and I've
>> tried it as it says with no luck. I've gotten everything else to work so i'm
>> quite puzzled. It must have something to do with routing and url recognition
>> is the only thing I can figure, as I believe the fb:board and fb:comments
>> tag map based on the URL and the xid=value.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:09 AM, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Not totally sure what your issues are but did you look at the comments
>>> section on the facebooker tutorial.
>>>
>>> They appear to be working there, although in there simplest form.
>>>
>>> http://apps.new.facebook.com/facebooker_tutorial/fbml/comments
>>>
>>> I haven't tried the board yet though.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Zhao Lu <zhao.lu.us at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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