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With the new fb_sig_request_method provided by Facebook, I''ve patched shanev''s pseudo-resource routes to generate restful routes, minus some exceptions. The announcement: http://www.facebook.com/developers/message.php#msg_126 Patch is submitted here: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=16105&group_id=4187&atid=16132 Blog entry ab...

Make your models feel like they are in high school again. This plugin retrieves the most frequently occurring values for each column. It adds methods of the form most_popular_[pluralized_column_name]. Check out <http://shanesbrain.net/articles/2006/08/04/acts-as-most-popular-rails-plugin> for sample usage. The plugin is mostly just a group_by in disguise. It is probably overkill if you

I want to be able to call an action after performing an edit using the in-place editor macro. I want to update multiple divs so I was thinking about using an RJS template. However, I can''t figure out how to trigger another action after the method created by in_place_edit_for runs. Is there is an option on Ajax.InPlaceEditor where I can inject some Element.update calls? Thanks, Shane

I''m trying to set up switchtower, following the info in the Manual, but am getting this error when I run "rake remote_exec ACTION=setup": servers: ["cantona.dnswatchdog.com"] /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/net-ssh-1.0.3/lib/net/ssh/transport/packet-stream.rb:203:in `sysread'': bignum too big to convert into `long'' (RangeError) from

Hey everybody. I''ve been using Facebooker on several projects over the last few months and feel like it is really starting to mature. I''d like to push towards a 1.0 release within the next month. I''d really like everybody''s input on what still needs to be done, as well as some help in wrapping things up. I''ve created a list of things that still

I don''t know if anyone is using this but I just fixed a bunch of bugs, some big ones, and moved this project to RubyForge SVN servers. So you can get it here now: script/plugin install http://facebooker-mq.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/facebooker-mq/ This is working great for me on a couple of projects. Here is the README Updated: 3/14/2008 Purpose: The purpose of FacebookerMQ is to

Hey everyone. I have a quick question. Checking out facebooker as a plugin is currently really slow due to the example rails application. Would anyone object if I moved that out of the main plugin directory? Mike -- Mike Mangino http://www.elevatedrails.com

I''m using render_to_string in an after_filter, which renders a partial that is sent to a web service. Here''s the code: class MyController < ApplicationController after_filter :post_to_webservice def show # show logic end def post_to_webservice stuff = render_to_string :partial => ''stuff'' webservice_post(stuff) end I get a DoubleRenderError in the

I''ve got switchtower set up, and it seems to work fine except for one problem: It doesn''t successfully restart lighttpd. I have the following task in my deploy.rb file: desc "Restart the web server" task :restart, :roles => :app do sudo "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/lighttpd.sh restart" end This is on a FreeBSD system, so it''s using the rc script to

Hey guys- A few methods useful for testing have been added to trunk: 1) facebook_post For use in controller unit tests and integration tests. Basically, it delegates to the standard "post" method for simulating post requests in a test, but constructs mock fb_sig params and passes them along to the requested action with the rest of the params that the test specifies. 2)

Rails Stats is a simplified graphical version of the Rake ''stats'' task. It generates a graph showing your lines of code versus lines of test code, and two other graphs showing the composition of your project and tests. The plugin requires Gruff Graphs. <http://shanesbrain.net/articles/2006/07/18/rails-stats-plugin-or-show-me-those-pretty-graphs> If not useful, I hope

I added a route mapper called facebook_resources. This allows you to create pseudo-resource routes. Since everything is a POST in Facebook, you can''t identify routes using HTTP verbs. Each route is prefixed with its action, except for index. Example: map.facebook_resources :profiles Will give you the following named routes: new_profile POST /profiles/new profiles POST

Facebook added the ''degree'' field to education info. This breaks user.populate because the ''degree'' field doesn''t exist in the education history model. On a side note, if a method calls a dangerous method (ending with !), shouldn''t it be classified as dangerous too? Shane -- http://myfitbuddy.com | http://shanesbrain.net |

I get the following error when trying to submit a patch: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/web/main.py", line 314, in dispatch_request dispatcher.dispatch(req) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/trac/web/main.py", line 199, in dispatch resp = chosen_handler.process_request(req) File

The profile picture album is treated as a special album by Facebok and is not returned in the normal get photo albums API call. A bunch of special operations have to be performed to get the aid for the profile picture album. I added a method to User to get the profile pics. Use as follows: facebook_session.user.profile_photos # returns Photo objects Enjoy, Shane -- http://myfitbuddy.com |

Hey guys- to_json in Rails 1.2 produces json with unquoted keys, which is invalid. Therefore, publish_templatized_action produces invalid json for feed publishing, and you''ll get an error from Facebook. To fix this, put this line in environment.rb: ActiveSupport::JSON.unquote_hash_key_identifiers = false You don''t need to do this if you''re running Rails 2.0. Just a

Hey guys, Lets say I have the following nested resources: map.resource artists do |artists| map.resource songs end To create a new song, the url would be: /artists/:artist_id/songs/:song_id However, lets say that an artist doesn''t exist yet. I only want to create an artist if a new song by the artist is successfully saved. I am retrieving the artist using something like: @artist

Hey guys- Two new features: Set/get app properties like this: properties = { :application_name => "Video Jukebox", :default_fbml => "blah" } facebook_session.admin.set_app_properties(properties) properties = facebook_session.admin.get_app_properties(:application_name, :default_fbml) Set/get cookies: facebook_session.data.set_cookie(uid,

There is a catch-all rescue at the bottom of rails_integration_test that stops the tests from running if any of the require statements fail. In my case, require File.dirname(__FILE__)+''/../init'' fails and none of the tests get run. When I comment out that line, there are a couple of failures relating to redirection. Shane -- http://myfitbuddy.com http://shanesbrain.net

Hey guys- I started a module for Rails test helpers. The first one is assert_fb_redirect. This is like Rails'' assert_redirect, but works for the fb:redirect FBML tag. Any ideas for more? I was thinking about a version of assert_select that works with Facebook. assert_select is based on CSS selectors, which won''t work with Facebook since the use of colons (:) in search