Robert Walker wrote:> Pale Horse wrote:
>> I want to display my facebook updates on my rails application. I
presume
>> I''d use a plug-in for this or is there a better way?
>
> A slight variation to "Google is your friend." In these cases
"Github is
> your friend."
>
> http://github.com/mmangino/facebooker/
>
> I just typed Facebook in the Github search field. It listed this as the
> first result. I have no experience with this, but I have heard of it so
> I''m assuming it will probably work well.
I''ve used it. It generally works well, though the docs could be a bit
better.
Read the Facebook developer wiki and forums.
>
> You don''t really have to use a plugin however. Facebook has a
public
> RESTful API:
>
> http://developers.facebook.com
But unless they''ve changed things, a plugin is still helpful to
generate
the cryptographic signature that authenticates API requests. Facebooker
also includers a bit of JS syntactic sugar since you can''t use
libraries
like Prototype on Facebook canvas apps.
Best,
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