Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Rails Meetup Vancouver: Facebook on Rails

I gave a talk at Rails Meetup Vancouver on developing a FBML Facebook app using rails, and the advantages/disadvantages of facebook markup vs web standards. In particular, the talk covered the rfacebook gem/plugin and discussed some limitations of that library. Unlike the PHP library which is provided by Facebook, other facebook client libraries are always playing catchup to changes to the development platform. Generally its a good idea to test out the interaction between facebook - rfacebook - backend before jumping into building your app. Here are the slides from the presentation:

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