I want to display my facebook updates on my rails application. I presume I'd use a plug-in for this or is there a better way?
Thanks.
Pale Horse wrote:
I want to display my facebook updates on my rails application. I presume I'd use a plug-in for this or is there a better way?
A slight variation to "Google is your friend." In these cases "Github is your friend."
I just typed Facebook in the Github search field. It listed this as the first result. I have no experience with this, but I have heard of it so I'm assuming it will probably work well.
You don't really have to use a plugin however. Facebook has a public RESTful API:
Robert Walker wrote:
Pale Horse wrote:
I want to display my facebook updates on my rails application. I presume I'd use a plug-in for this or is there a better way?
A slight variation to "Google is your friend." In these cases "Github is your friend."
GitHub - mmangino/facebooker: The facebooker Rails plugin
I just typed Facebook in the Github search field. It listed this as the first result. I have no experience with this, but I have heard of it so I'm assuming it will probably work well.
I've used it. It generally works well, though the docs could be a bit better.
Read the Facebook developer wiki and forums.
You don't really have to use a plugin however. Facebook has a public RESTful API:
But unless they've changed things, a plugin is still helpful to generate the cryptographic signature that authenticates API requests. Facebooker also includers a bit of JS syntactic sugar since you can't use libraries like Prototype on Facebook canvas apps.
Best,