Facebooker talk - Oct 2008 - registering feed template bundles

Hi all,

I''m curious, how do people currently manage "registering"
template
bundles for their app''s feed stories? I''m not talking about
the
specific method calls, but how do you determine *when* to register a
template?

Right now I have a call to the relevant register_action() method of my
publisher objects in my controller. It gets called just before I call
deliver_action(), but this is far from ideal as it slows down the
request processing.

My current thinking is that I should perhaps write a
facebooker-specific rake task to register all the feed templates in a
rails app. The tricky part is how to manage different versions of
templates being registered in development and production.

Anyone have any thoughts on this, or willing to share their current approach?

Thanks,
Lee.


-- 
Lee Mallabone
Director, Crossbone Systems Ltd

http://www.crossbonesystems.com
http://www.fonicmonkey.net
http://CambridgeWebHeads.ning.com

When I am about to publish an action I check to see if the template is
registered.  If it is not then I register it before publishing.

Then I push to production and test all the publishing, which registers the
templates.

Dave


On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Lee Mallabone <lee at
crossbonesystems.com>wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I''m curious, how do people currently manage
"registering" template
> bundles for their app''s feed stories? I''m not talking
about the
> specific method calls, but how do you determine *when* to register a
> template?
>
> Right now I have a call to the relevant register_action() method of my
> publisher objects in my controller. It gets called just before I call
> deliver_action(), but this is far from ideal as it slows down the
> request processing.
>
> My current thinking is that I should perhaps write a
> facebooker-specific rake task to register all the feed templates in a
> rails app. The tricky part is how to manage different versions of
> templates being registered in development and production.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on this, or willing to share their current
> approach?
>
> Thanks,
> Lee.
>
>
> --
> Lee Mallabone
> Director, Crossbone Systems Ltd
>
> http://www.crossbonesystems.com
> http://www.fonicmonkey.net
> http://CambridgeWebHeads.ning.com
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Hi,

Facebooker provide a generator for publishers.
$ script/generate publisher app

on my observer, I have something like :

class MessageObserver < ActiveRecord::Observer
   observe Message
   def after_save(message)
     AppPublisher.register_new_message_feeds unless  
Facebooker 
::Rails 
::Publisher::FacebookTemplate.find_by_template_name("new_message_feeds")

     AppPublisher.deliver_new_message_feed(message)
   end
end

and in my publisher :

class AppPublisher < Facebooker::Rails::Publisher
   def new_message_feed_item_template
    
one_line_story_template(_(''one_line_story_template_new_message''))
    
short_story_template(_(''short_story_template_new_message_title''),
_(''short_story_template_new_message_body''))
    
full_story_template(_(''full_story_template_new_message_title''),
_(''full_story_template_new_message_body''))
   end

   def new_message_feed_item(message)
     user = Facebooker::User.new(message.user.uid)
     send_as :user_action

     from(user)
     target_ids(user.some_friends)

     data({
       :data1 => "value1",
       :data2 => "value2",
     })
   end
end

HTH,

-- 
St?phane Akkaoui


Le 15 oct. 08 ? 19:25, Lee Mallabone a ?crit :
> Hi all,
>
> I''m curious, how do people currently manage
"registering" template
> bundles for their app''s feed stories? I''m not talking
about the
> specific method calls, but how do you determine *when* to register a
> template?
>
> Right now I have a call to the relevant register_action() method of my
> publisher objects in my controller. It gets called just before I call
> deliver_action(), but this is far from ideal as it slows down the
> request processing.
>
> My current thinking is that I should perhaps write a
> facebooker-specific rake task to register all the feed templates in a
> rails app. The tricky part is how to manage different versions of
> templates being registered in development and production.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on this, or willing to share their current  
> approach?
>
> Thanks,
> Lee.
>
>
> -- 
> Lee Mallabone
> Director, Crossbone Systems Ltd
>
> http://www.crossbonesystems.com
> http://www.fonicmonkey.net
> http://CambridgeWebHeads.ning.com
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk

On Oct 15, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Lee Mallabone wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I''m curious, how do people currently manage
"registering" template
> bundles for their app''s feed stories? I''m not talking
about the
> specific method calls, but how do you determine *when* to register a
> template?
>
> Right now I have a call to the relevant register_action() method of my
> publisher objects in my controller. It gets called just before I call
> deliver_action(), but this is far from ideal as it slows down the
> request processing.
>
> My current thinking is that I should perhaps write a
> facebooker-specific rake task to register all the feed templates in a
> rails app. The tricky part is how to manage different versions of
> templates being registered in development and production.
We use a cap task that registers on each deploy. It registers all of  
the templates and then unregisters any old ones. Victor Costan has  
been working on support for auto-registering new templates on first  
use. Hopefully that will be available by the end of the week.

Mike

>
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on this, or willing to share their current  
> approach?
>
> Thanks,
> Lee.
>
>
> -- 
> Lee Mallabone
> Director, Crossbone Systems Ltd
>
> http://www.crossbonesystems.com
> http://www.fonicmonkey.net
> http://CambridgeWebHeads.ning.com
> _______________________________________________
> Facebooker-talk mailing list
> Facebooker-talk at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/facebooker-talk
--
Mike Mangino
http://www.elevatedrails.com