Plugins - Facebooker
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Facebooker
Facebooker is a Ruby wrapper over the Facebook[http://facebook.com] {REST API}[http://developer.facebook.com]. Its goals are:
- Idiomatic Ruby
- No dependencies outside of the Ruby standard library
- Concrete classes and methods modeling the Facebook data, so it’s easy for a Rubyist to understand what’s available
- Well tested
Installing (Non Rails)
The best way is:
gem install facebooker
If, for some reason, you can’t/won’t use RubyGems, you can do:
(sudo) ruby setup.rb
Installing (Rails)
Facebooker can be installed as a Rails plugin by:
script/plugin install http://facebooker.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/facebooker/
Once the plugin is installed, you will need to configure your Facebook app in config/facebooker.yml.
Your application users will need to have added the application in facebook to access all of facebooker’s features. You enforce this by adding
ensure_application_is_installed_by_facebook_user
to your application controller.
Work in Progress
I’m not saying it meets its goals fully yet. Please help. I’m especially interested in feedback and criticism re: Ruby style and design and testing. RCov has the library (at the time of this writing) at 100% coverage. I take that with a grain of salt, but it’s a good start.
Contribute
Please visit the {RubyForge project page}[http://rubyforge.org/projects/facebooker] to get the latest source via svn, write some tests, add/fix features, and submit a patch via the tracker. If you submit a good patch, it’s likely that I’ll add you to the project for commit access if you want to be added.
