Facebooker talk - Mar 2008 - How to build URL''s in models/outside controller/view code?

I''m building FBML in an asynchronous process, which is spawned from
model
code.  There is no associated HTTP request, and thus no controller or view
facilities available.  I''m wondering if others do this, and what you
recommend for building URL''s (e.g. with lack of link_to and url_for,
etc.)?


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The new Publisher Api supports this have you looked at that?  You have
access to all the view helpers and url_for.

Are you pushing profile fbml?  It supports that.

Dave


On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Christopher Bailey
<chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> I''m building FBML in an asynchronous process, which is spawned
from model
> code.  There is no associated HTTP request, and thus no controller or view
> facilities available.  I''m wondering if others do this, and what
you
> recommend for building URL''s (e.g. with lack of link_to and
url_for, etc.)?
>
> --
> Christopher Bailey
> Cobalt Edge LLC
> http://cobaltedge.com
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>

Like Dave said definitely check out the publisher api. If for some  
reason that isn''t what you want, take a look at
http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/UrlWriter.html
  to see how to include url helpers in any class.

Michael Niessner

On Mar 4, 2008, at 1:22 PM, David Clements wrote:
> The new Publisher Api supports this have you looked at that?  You have
> access to all the view helpers and url_for.
>
> Are you pushing profile fbml?  It supports that.
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Christopher Bailey
> <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
>> I''m building FBML in an asynchronous process, which is spawned
from
>> model
>> code.  There is no associated HTTP request, and thus no controller  
>> or view
>> facilities available.  I''m wondering if others do this, and
what you
>> recommend for building URL''s (e.g. with lack of link_to and  
>> url_for, etc.)?
>>
>> --
>> Christopher Bailey
>> Cobalt Edge LLC
>> http://cobaltedge.com
>> _______________________________________________
>> Facebooker-talk mailing list
>> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
>>
>>
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Ah, thanks for reminding me about that!  Ok, I''m trying to use it now. 
I''ve
built my class to publish a profile update for a user, as per Mike''s
message
(in his response to you putting up the tutorial).  But, when I call
FacebookPublisher.deliver_profile_update(user), I get see this:

NoMethodError (undefined method `send!'' for #<Module:0x439da10>):
    .//vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/rails/publisher.rb:263:in
`inherited''
    .//app/models/facebook_publisher.rb:1


Any ideas before I dig in further?  I''m using the latest Facebooker
(rev
200).

On 3/4/08, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> The new Publisher Api supports this have you looked at that?  You have
> access to all the view helpers and url_for.
>
> Are you pushing profile fbml?  It supports that.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Christopher Bailey
> <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > I''m building FBML in an asynchronous process, which is
spawned from
> model
> > code.  There is no associated HTTP request, and thus no controller or
> view
> > facilities available.  I''m wondering if others do this, and
what you
> > recommend for building URL''s (e.g. with lack of link_to and
url_for,
> etc.)?
> >
> > --
> > Christopher Bailey
> > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > http://cobaltedge.com
>
> > _______________________________________________
> >  Facebooker-talk mailing list
> >  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> >  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> >
> >
>


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Well, it appears the fix for this was simply to change the call from
"send!"
to be "send" instead.  My story gets sent that way.  Is send! a Rails
2
addition possibly?  I''m using Rails 1.2.3.

On 3/4/08, Christopher Bailey <chris at cobaltedge.com>
wrote:
>
> Ah, thanks for reminding me about that!  Ok, I''m trying to use it
now.
>  I''ve built my class to publish a profile update for a user, as
per Mike''s
> message (in his response to you putting up the tutorial).  But, when I call
> FacebookPublisher.deliver_profile_update(user), I get see this:
>
> NoMethodError (undefined method `send!'' for
#<Module:0x439da10>):
>     .//vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/rails/publisher.rb:263:in
> `inherited''
>     .//app/models/facebook_publisher.rb:1
>
>
> Any ideas before I dig in further?  I''m using the latest
Facebooker (rev
> 200).
>
> On 3/4/08, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The new Publisher Api supports this have you looked at that?  You have
> > access to all the view helpers and url_for.
> >
> > Are you pushing profile fbml?  It supports that.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Christopher Bailey
> > <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > > I''m building FBML in an asynchronous process, which is
spawned from
> > model
> > > code.  There is no associated HTTP request, and thus no
controller or
> > view
> > > facilities available.  I''m wondering if others do this,
and what you
> > > recommend for building URL''s (e.g. with lack of link_to
and url_for,
> > etc.)?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Christopher Bailey
> > > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > > http://cobaltedge.com
> >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > >  Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > >  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > >  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Christopher Bailey
> Cobalt Edge LLC
> http://cobaltedge.com
>


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Cobalt Edge LLC
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Further followup...  So, the Publisher solution doesn''t seem to
actually
solve my need for URL generation.  link_to, url_for, image_tag, and so on
don''t seem to work (I get various undefined method errors for methods
they
use, etc.).  Is that expected, or?

On 3/4/08, Christopher Bailey <chris at cobaltedge.com>
wrote:
>
> Well, it appears the fix for this was simply to change the call from
> "send!" to be "send" instead.  My story gets sent that
way.  Is send! a
> Rails 2 addition possibly?  I''m using Rails 1.2.3.
>
> On 3/4/08, Christopher Bailey <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> >
> > Ah, thanks for reminding me about that!  Ok, I''m trying to
use it now.
> >  I''ve built my class to publish a profile update for a user,
as per Mike''s
> > message (in his response to you putting up the tutorial).  But, when I
call
> > FacebookPublisher.deliver_profile_update(user), I get see this:
> >
> > NoMethodError (undefined method `send!'' for
#<Module:0x439da10>):
> >
> >  .//vendor/plugins/facebooker/lib/facebooker/rails/publisher.rb:263:in
> > `inherited''
> >     .//app/models/facebook_publisher.rb:1
> >
> >
> > Any ideas before I dig in further?  I''m using the latest
Facebooker (rev
> > 200).
> >
> > On 3/4/08, David Clements <digidigo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > The new Publisher Api supports this have you looked at that?  You
have
> > > access to all the view helpers and url_for.
> > >
> > > Are you pushing profile fbml?  It supports that.
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Christopher Bailey
> > > <chris at cobaltedge.com> wrote:
> > > > I''m building FBML in an asynchronous process, which
is spawned from
> > > model
> > > > code.  There is no associated HTTP request, and thus no
controller
> > > or view
> > > > facilities available.  I''m wondering if others do
this, and what you
> > > > recommend for building URL''s (e.g. with lack of
link_to and url_for,
> > > etc.)?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Christopher Bailey
> > > > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > > > http://cobaltedge.com
> > >
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > >  Facebooker-talk mailing list
> > > >  Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> > > >  http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Christopher Bailey
> > Cobalt Edge LLC
> > http://cobaltedge.com
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Christopher Bailey
> Cobalt Edge LLC
> http://cobaltedge.com
>


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Cobalt Edge LLC
http://cobaltedge.com
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