Rails for Facebook Part 1: Building an App From Scratch
We’ll create the core Rails application running on Facebook, with a form for entering run information and listing you and your friends’ runs. You’ll learn how to:
- create a Rails application: models, controllers, and views
- install and configure the
facebookerplugin from GitHub - register your Rails application with Facebook
- setup up Tunnlr so Facebook can talk to your local application
- use the
facebooker_authenticationplugin to authenticate Facebook users - access user information from Facebook
- create a Facebook form
- use Facebook view helpers and FBML tags
- make a layout to create a tabbed interface in the Facebook style