[Facebooker-talk] fb_comments and fb_board not working

Mike Mangino mmangino at elevatedrails.com
Thu Sep 4 17:11:20 EDT 2008


Have you tried the absolute basics?

<fb:board xid="titans_board" canpost="true" candelete="false"  
canmark="false" cancreatetopic="true" numtopics="5" returnurl="http://apps.facebook.com/myapp/titans/ 
"> <fb:title>Discuss the Titans</fb:title> </fb:board>

and stick that on a static html page?

If that works, try it with a rails page with a specific route to make  
sure all http methods can hit it.

We're using the board tag with success.

Mike

On Sep 4, 2008, at 1:23 PM, Allen Walker wrote:

> Well it has to somehow resolve ambiguities at least at an  
> application level.
>
> Again for some reason this isn't working properly. Maybe someone  
> else who's using these tags would chime in.
>
> David Clements wrote:
>> Yeah, I would think that it would do this.
>>
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Allen Walker <auswalk at gmail.com <mailto:auswalk at gmail.com 
>> >> wrote:
>>
>>    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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>>                <http://zhao.lu.us>@gmail.com <http://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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <http://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 <mailto: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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