[Facebooker-talk] fb_comments and fb_board not working

[Allen Walker]

Yeah I'm not really sure. Apparently I need to immerse myself in REST 
wrt Rails. I'm pretty confused I guess. Running "rake routes" can cause 
additional confusion sometimes.

The thing to understand with the problem here is that the URL has to 
accept POST requests. /controller/new does by the REST definition... and 
therefore will work with the fb:comments tag.  /controller by itself 
won't accept a POST and  therefore won't work with the fb:comments tag.

Right now I'm so confused that any page I put a fb:comments or fb:board 
on I make sure is /controller/new . But that is not really ideal.

Ken Schroeder wrote:
> Been following along with your thread here as I've had the same exact 
> issue. So what did you add in your routes for your
> /article/8 example which I assume is the show path.
>
> Using Mikes example of map.fancy_name 'fancy_path/:id' .... didn't 
> quite undetstand how to input that correctly.
>
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Allen Walker <auswalk at gmail.com 
> <mailto:auswalk at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     That's what I figured and that makes perfect sense. Thanks for
>     clearing that up. you might want to put this in your book btw.
>
>     Best regards
>
>
>     Mike Mangino wrote:
>
>         Actually, you can
>
>         map.fancy_name 'fancy_path/:id' ....
>
>         Your problems were caused by Facebook sending a POST request
>         to a URL that doesn't support posts. When they try to do that,
>         your application returns an error and they cancel the posting.
>         By creating a route by hand, you are decoupling it from the
>         HTTP method used.
>
>         Mike
>
>         On Sep 4, 2008, at 6:16 PM, Allen Walker wrote:
>
>             Also even though this works, i have urls that are dynamic
>             , i.e. /articles/8 for example and want comments on those
>             pages. That doesn't work. And I can't hardcode a route for
>             a dynamic route that I know of really.
>
>             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
>
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