Tutorial on developing a Facebook platform application with Ruby On Rails
June 29th, 2007
If you havn’t heard of Facebook. Where you been, living in a cave! Well you also probably know that in June 2007 Facebook opened a development platform for integrating new applications into Facebook, also codenamed F8. By the 24th June there were a 1,000 new applications available for the Facebook networkers to play with. According to both the online and traditional news media, Facebook have changed the game.
Well ZDNet are reporting that 1,000 developers a day are joining Facebook platform. That as it may, they are not all creating applications right away. The documentation is patchy, spread-out, difficult to understand and incomplete. It is a wonder so many applications are built because there is pain to go through to get there.
But this article is a complete tutorial for building a simple Facebook application in Ruby On Rails and should allow you to hit the ground running. We are going to create a recipes sharing application for Facebook from scratch.
UPDATE: The second part can be found here
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