I thought i''d share this snippet with others on the list who want to use the facebooker before filters but also want their app to run on a non-facebook format too: before_filter {|controller| ensure_application_is_installed_by_facebook_user if controller.params ["format"] == "fbml" } This simply wraps the facebooker before_filter in a proc and only executes it if the format is "fbml" Hope that is helpful. Mark