FaceB

FaceB is a Facebook Library which aims to be more modular than Facebooker. You can use it only for the Facebook API client or if you use Rails you can have a lot of stuff helping you to develop your Facebook application (controller, helper methods).

Installation

$ [sudo] gem install faceb

Getting started

Facebook API client

FaceB is modular so you can use it just as a tool for interact with Facebook API. You are free to use this syntax :

require 'faceb'
FaceB.call('api-key', 'secret-key', 'method.name', :param1 => 'value1')

Or if you call more than once API methods, you can create a persistent session like that :

require 'faceb'
FaceB.new('api-key', 'secret-key')
FaceB.session.call('users.getInfo', :fields => 'name', :uids => 123456)
FaceB.session.call('users.getInfo', :fields => 'name', :uids => 123456)

Or you can even call API method dynamically :

require 'faceb'
FaceB.new('api-key', 'secret-key')
FaceB.session.users.getInfo(:fields => 'name', :uids => 123456)

Rails integration

Rails 3 initialization

First thing to do is to add FaceB as dependency of your new project, add this line at the end of your Gemfile file :

gem 'faceb'

Then call the initialization script like this :

$ ./script/rails generate face_b:config --api-key=xxxx --secret-key=xxxx

This generator will create a new file named faceb.yml in your config directory. Edit this new file with your Facebook application properties.

Rails 2.3.x initialization

In your config/environment.rb add this line :

Rails::Initializer.run do |config|
  [...]
  config.gem 'faceb'
  [...]
end

And run the following rake task :

rake face_b:config API_KEY=xxxx SECRET_KEY=xxxx

TODO

• Add mutli Facebook application settings (alternative api key)
• Add view helpers
• Add Facebook connect helpers
• Add Rails 2.3.x compatibility

Contributors

• Mathieu Fosse

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

• Fork the project.
• Make your feature addition or bug fix.
• Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
• Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2010 Mathieu Fosse. See LICENSE for details.