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Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails

By admin ⋅ April 15, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails provides everything needed to get started, with great examples and clear explanations. The author provides detailed instructions for building a basic Facebook application, and then adds more complex features such asnews feeds and asynchronous messaging. Tips are also provided for using Facebooker, a Ruby library that is really handy to jumpstart your facebook development and reduce time on developing.

from the author:

With more than 60 million users, Facebook provides a captive audience for developers. More than 12,000 Facebook applications have been launched so far: Is yours next? It could be, with this book. You’ll see how to develop Facebook Platform applications quickly, using the popular Ruby on Rails framework. You’ll learn to use Facebook technologies such as FBML and FQL, and you’ll see how to leverage Rails and the Facebook Platform to make your application a success.

what others say:

“This book serves up a helpful and timely tutorial for the Rails developer contemplating authorship of a first Facebook application. No prior Facebook API or development knowledge is assumed, although those with some familiarity may find the reading less tedious.”

By Dale Lampson on Amazon.com

“I used this book to write three different facebook apps using the FBML option (instead of iframe). I’ve already been programming in Rails for the past year so I was looking for the quickest way to learn about the Facebook platform and the Facebooker plugin.

A bonus feature of this book is the author. He is very active on Github (where the source code is stored) and the Facebooker mailing list. Without him I don’t think Facebooker would be where it is today.

I highly recommend this book if you are looking to develop a Rails app on Facebook. I also recommending joining the mailing list and subscribing to Mike’s RSS commit log on Github.”

By Unknown on Amazon.com