[Facebooker-talk] Dynamically setting api/secret keys: a quick howto

[Mike Mangino]

Awesome!

Thanks for posting. The setup code is really messy so I'm sure that  
was a pain to figure out. That's on my todolist for refactoring to  
simplify.

Mike

On Jan 31, 2009, at 6:50 PM, Robert Matei wrote:

> This started out as a request for help, but I figured it out so I  
> figured I'd share. I run several Facebook apps off a single Rails  
> app and I keep track of them in the database, so I wanted to set the  
> Facebooker config for each request, without relying on hard-coded  
> yml files. It's actually pretty simple:
>
> 1) Delete your facebooker.yml file so Facebooker's own  
> initialization doesn't override your settings.
> 2) Run something like this as a prepend_before_filter (might also  
> work as a regular before_filter).
>
> code copied here:
>       # replacement for Facebooker.load_configuration - we need this  
> to set the app
>       # dynamically rather than from facebooker.yml.
>       def self.set_facebooker_config app = App.current
>         puts "Seting Facebooker config for #{app.api_key}..."
>         attributes = app.attributes
>         ENV['FACEBOOK_API_KEY'] = attributes['api_key']
>         ENV['FACEBOOK_SECRET_KEY'] = attributes['secret_key']
>         ENV['FACEBOOKER_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT'] =  
> attributes['canvas_page_name']
>         ENV['FACEBOOKER_API'] = "new"
>         ActionController::Base.asset_host = attributes['callback_url']
>       end
>
> Hope this saves someone some diving through the Facebooker source.
> Robert
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