Comments on: Star in a Porno with Facebook Connect and Rails

By: Chris Hobbs

Chris Hobbs — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:25:21 +0000

Thanks for the tips. The FB Connect helpers look like they could be useful. I agree with you that name spacing the publishers within your app is a good idea.

By: Jonas Wagner

Jonas Wagner — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:31:09 +0000

Thanks a lot, this was so helpful to me. There are fairly little examples on FB.Connect.showFeedDialog out in the net, so I was glad to see it used here.

Facebooker also has a helper for it called fb_user_action, so you can create an action with the publisher (e.g. using create_feed_role), then pass it to fb_user_action which will display Facebook’s feed dialog.

Finally, your StoryController calls ZackPublisher.register_if_needed(‘feed_role’). IMHO that should be ZackPublisher.register_if_needed(‘ZackPublisher::feed_role’). Maybe facebooker changed the way those templates are named?

By: Chris Hobbs

Chris Hobbs — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:56:39 +0000

I’m surprised it’s still working for znm. I suppose we were grandfathered in. I did a test just now and even though znm was able to post the one line story to my profile this story did not appear in my friends’ news feeds. Lame.

Much better is to use the new story publisher. That will show up in news feeds.

By: Chris Chan

Chris Chan — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:42:10 +0000

How is ZackNMiri still working for one line stories if Facebook got rid of the API call?

Thanks for the quick response by the way.

By: Chris Hobbs

Chris Hobbs — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:46:36 +0000

FB got rid of that API call. They now recommend you use the feed publisher xfbml. There are some examples in znm but github seems to be down now. Look for the Story Publisher link after you connect to znm and then “use javascript.”

By: Chris Chan

Chris Chan — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:25:53 +0000

I’m trying to publish a one line story to my profile using the exact same method you’re using on zacknmiri.com. I get the following error:

facebook.feed.publishUserAction (0) StandardError: Feed.publishUserAction cannot be used to automatically publish one-line stories on Connect sites.: template_bundle_id = 72378344902, template_data = {“role”: “test facebook feed”}

Any ideas?

By: Chris Hobbs

Chris Hobbs — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:03:13 +0000

That’s great that it will work from localhost. I didn’t realize that was possible. I thought for the first authentication facebook had to make a request to your server.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:24:15 +0000

Thanks for putting the site up, Chris! I just started picking at Facebook Connect on RoR, and I’m not having any problem getting the facebook session user object on localhost (my callback URL is http://localhost:3000/facebook/connect). Also, my xd_receiver.html file isn’t in facebook/connect, it’s in another folder that I reference in my FB.Facebook.init call, and it’s working fine. I haven’t tried publishing any stories — is that when the callback URL has to be something other than localhost?

By: Chris Hobbs

Chris Hobbs — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:21:45 +0000

It will not work on localhost. There are some ways to set up tunneling but when I am developing I map a domain name my publicly facing ip address and then have my router forward requests to port 3000 to my computer. Then in my facebook settings I make the callback URL be something like http://znm.spongecell.com:3000/zack/connect. When developing your browser should point to http://znm.spongecell.com:3000.

Remember that your xd_receiver file must have the same path as the callback url.
http://znm.spongecell.com:3000/zack/connect/xd_receiver.htm

I cleaned up ZNM a bit today. Settings are now in environment.rb instead of scattered about js files.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:37:45 +0000

hi, I didn’t use Facebook Platform before, but I need to integrate Facebook Connect with my current Rails App, could you tell me how to do with it, thanks!!