RFacebook to see some updates and code slimming
It has been a while since I’ve updated RFacebook, and I finally have the time to do so. Again, I’m always looking for dedicated help, since my time is limited as it is. The project has gotten quite involved, and recent API changes + the Rails 2.0 release has complicated it somewhat.
In spite of the backlog of bugs and feature requests, you should see some improvements over the next few weeks. I plan on slimming down the code as much as possible, as well as removing some poorly designed portions of the library. I’ll have a few interim updates (0.98 and 0.99), but RFacebook 1.0 will have a much more solid core, with the Rails extensions pulled exclusively into a plugin.
Please let me know your biggest complaints with RFacebook (features, bugs, and code design) so that I can address them all fully. Good luck Facebooking!
January 5th, 2008 at 3:09 am
Good to see you back! x=) A couple of things that would be great to see in the 1.0 release would be support for the new fb_sig_request_method that would allow rails to know what kind of request is being sent and act acordingly, giving us REST support back. Another idea i had was to ween out the facepricot (or possibly make it a non-default option) and return results in normal ruby objects like hash’s and array’s.. not sure how well this would work. Otherwise, great gem/plugin already and I look forward to any improvements you throw at me. x=)
January 6th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Hi - I’d like to contribute to the codebase. I have been developing acts_as_facebook_page to go along with acts_as_facebook_user.
Ben
January 8th, 2008 at 10:44 am
I agree that getting Ruby objects back would be a nice improvement (maybe make this an option so is backward compatible).
I would also like to see support for the Photos.upload API (special format requirements compared to other API calls).
http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Photos.upload
Thanks for the great work
Jen
January 8th, 2008 at 11:17 am
I think that out of the box compatibility with rails 2 would be great. It means folks can actually use rfacebook again without patching and/or tearing their hair out.
I look forward to working with the new version!
June 13th, 2008 at 8:29 am
I did some very basic support for photos.upload for RFacebook. It is very simple and I want to get some feedback from You if this is right direction for adding support to photos upload.
More details on my blog:
http://nhw.pl/wp/2008/06/13/uploading-photos-to-facebook-with-rfacebook