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This is the beginnings of a plugin I may put together to help others integrate Facebook into their Rails apps. Much of the code is borrowed from Luke Shepherd’s examples and slightly modified and repackaged. It is cleaner (and more Ruby-like) than having all those Facebook specific methods scattered around your application controller. You can check out the latest code with fixes (including fixes for the extended RFacebook Ruby API Client) at http://svn.jamiequint.com/rubyface (NOTE: There likely still bugs with this code, I’m collaborating with Paul McKellar on this and will update here as things progress) You will want to put this code in the lib directory of your Rails application and use it like this…

require "facebook_web_session"

class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
include Facebook
session :session_key => ‘_myapp_session_id’
before_filter :initfb
before_filter :require_login, :except => [:view, :index, :list]
end

I’ve also found the most helpful resource yet to be the Facebook Platform Wiki so if you are looking for further help I suggest checking that out.

UPDATE: Matt Pizzimenti just released an updated version of RFacebook that works so as of now you probably should be using that.

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