This post assumes we are using the Facebooker plugin to Facebook Connect the Rails application to Facebook. If you want an extended functionality of displaying a user’s stream on in your application, just the Facebook Connect is not going to work. It would be required that our app requests extended facebook permissions from the user. [...]
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31
Jul
2010
How to: fetch and show the user stream from facebook via facebook connect
Tags: facebook, rubyonrails
30
Jul
2010
How to: merge facebook connect dialog with successive request dialog for extended permissions
Tags: facebook, rubyonrails
When using the Facebooker plugin for connecting your Rails app with Facebook, it’s simple by using the method fb_login_button and providing a callback url. Since quite sometime, Facebook has restricted the open accessibility of the user’s stream via API even when the user is connected via Facebook Connect. And it requires another permission from the [...]
30
Jul
2010
How to: logout the facebook connect in Ruby on Rails
Tags: facebook, rubyonrails
When connecting your Ruby on Rails application with Facebook Connect, it sometimes a problem to have the user properly logout the Rails application and the Facebook Connect’s session as well. If we use the plugin Facebooker the logout is mostly a problem and the issue is that the Facebook cookie is not directly removable by [...]
