Recent Posts by Jay McGaffigan

Topic: Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails / Integrate into Existing Application

Thanks mike! That’s super helpful.

and thanks for the tip on the mailing list. I’ll be heading over there now.

Topic: Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails / Integrate into Existing Application

Hi all,

Mike I just finished reading your latest chapter and it’s pretty good. I’m wondering tho, What if I have an existing website that’s already in production and I’m creating a Facebook application to go with it? At first blush it seems to me that should I follow the guidance offered in your chapter and integrate my site with the facebook application that in reality what will happen is that my main site becomes subsumed by the facebook application. What I mean is that it feels like I would have to attach to all my routes the :canvas => false option, and all my non facebook controllers will need to have the before_filter to skip the application check. Is this observation true?

what I am thinking is that I would like to be able to segment the facebook stuff from my website stuff via something like separate routes, or checking the request in application.rb and setting things up to either render as html or render as fbml in the controller actions (just like you can render as :xml) (although I’m not confident that is a way to go).

I’m starting to develop a facebook application where factors influencing design/implementation point me to wanting to be able to separate out the facebook stuff from the main website to the point that they may have to be two separate applications in the future.

Do you (or anyone) know of other information/discussion forums on integrating FB into an existing app?

Great book so far.
Thanks!
Jay