Recent Posts by Christian MacLean

Topic: Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails / Local development - FBML vs. iframe

Honestly – from what I’ve found you’re better off going out and setting up a free account with dyndns, and then configuring the port mapping on your router to point to your machine running mongrel – I map port 80 (default web port) to 3000 (default mongrel port). Then in my app setup on facebook, I point the config at my dnynds domain. Make sense?

Topic: Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails / Accessing Facebooker::User constants...

Hey Mike,

I feel like I'm dominating this forum...but...

Question and suggestion for you.  You don't mention in your book anywhere how to access the Facebooker::User constants - I can't for the life of me figure out how to get at the :status, :political, :pic_small, :name, etc information for my user object!  I'm pretty sure I have to create a new Facebooker object from my User.id - but I'm not sure where to go from there...

I think a section on accessing this information (and perhaps the best practice for it) as well as perhaps a section that would offer suggestions on how to Grok some of the rdoc's would be uber helpful.

Thanks Mike!

Christian

Topic: Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails / Capture xml responses from Facebook...

Hey Mike,

One thing I’d love to know is a good way to capture the raw XML responses from facebook (say when I make a call from IRB). Can you give us an idea how to do this (for debugging) either from IRB or from the browser?

CM

Topic: Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails / Facebook not appending apps.facebook.com

Perfect! That did it Mike.

Thanks!

CM

Topic: Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails / Facebook not appending apps.facebook.com

I’ll try that right now! Thanks for the timely response.

Question for you developer to developer – I really have trouble reading rdocs and gleaning anything meaningful about learning a new plugin, or rails feature, etc. After 11 years of developement I don’t feel like I’m a dummy reading package and API docs – any tips on how to go about it in Ruby/Rails?

Keep up the good work buddy.

CM

Topic: Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails / Facebook not appending apps.facebook.com

Doesn’t seem to be making any difference at all to me – even if I set :canvas=>false or omit that parameter at all I still get a relative path.

Any suggestions?