Facebooker2 =========== Provides rails helpers for interfacing with Facebook's OpenGraph Javascript API, http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/. Requires the mogli gem. Example ======= 0. Prerequisite: You need a facebook app. Have your API Key, Application Secret, and Application ID handy. 1. Install facebooker2 as a plugin in your rails app. 2. Create config/facebooker.yml with the appropriate environment. production: app_id: secret: api_key: 3. Create config/initializers/facebooker2.rb and place the following line in it Facebooker2.load_facebooker_yaml 4. Add the following line to your app/controllers/application_controller.rb include Facebooker2::Rails::Controller 5. Update your rails applications to use the rails helpers. This could be in a shared login partial. <%= fb_connect_async_js %> <% if current_facebook_user %> <%= "Welcome #{current_facebook_user.first_name} #{current_facebook_user.last_name}!" %> or <%= "Hello #{fb_name(current_facebook_user, :useyou => false)}!" # link to facebook profile %> <%= fb_logout_link("Logout of fb", request.url) %>
<% else # you must explicitly request permissions for facebook user fields. # here we instruct facebook to ask the user for permission for our website # to access the user's facebook email and birthday %> <%= fb_login_and_redirect('', :perms => 'email,user_birthday') %> <% end %> Copyright (c) 2010 Mike Mangino, released under the MIT license