[Facebooker-talk] fb_comments and fb_board not working
Allen Walker
auswalk at gmail.com
Thu Sep 4 17:56:17 EDT 2008
That worked! Man I am confused on this routing stuff and I'm really lost
as to why this works and it doesn't work the default way.
Mike Mangino wrote:
> Try creating a route just for that page, i.e.
>
> route.discussion_board 'discussion', :controller=>"home",
> :action=>"index"
>
> Then, go to http://apps.new.facebook.com/myapp/discussion and see if
> that works.
>
> I struggled like mad to get this to work the first time too. I wish I
> could remember the eventual fix.
>
> Mike
>
> On Sep 4, 2008, at 5:28 PM, Allen Walker wrote:
>
>> Interesting. I was able to get the fb:board to work properly when
>> added a "new" action to my home controller. Then I created new.fbml.erb:
>>
>> <fb:board xid="titans_board" canpost="true" candelete="false"
>> canmark="false" cancreatetopic="true" numtopics="5"
>> returnurl="http://apps.facebook.com/myapp/home/"> <fb:title>Discuss
>> the Titans</fb:title> </fb:board>
>>
>> Went to http://apps.new.facebook.com/myapp/home/new
>>
>> Created a topic, hit post and it saved it.
>>
>> Then on my home page the saved topic now appears in the list, but
>> once again if I try to create a new topic from this page , nothing is
>> populated. It only works when I go to
>> http://apps.new.facebook.com/myapp/home/new and then create and post
>> of topic from that page
>>
>> Bizarre. Any ideas
>>
>> Mike Mangino wrote:
>>> 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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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Zhao
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -- http://auswalk.blogspot.com
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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