Introduction:

Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails leads you through the steps necessary to build your first application. You’ll get hands-on experience with Facebook technologies such as FBML and FQL, and master messaging and news feeds.

You’ll do more than just study the Facebook API-you’ll get practical tips from an experienced Facebook developer. We’ll cover advanced techniques such as AJAX and asynchronous messaging, and you’ll see how to slash development time with facebooker, the leading Ruby library for Facebook Platform development.

Together, we’ll build Karate Poke, a real Facebook Platform application, from configuration to deployment. You’ll get deep into Facebook requests right off the bat. From there, you’ll build the core of Karate Poke and then get a detailed look at the Facebook canvas and social features. We’ll finish by looking at advanced features and tips for handling millions of users.

Developing for the Facebook Platform can seem like a different world at first. Developing Facebook Platform Applications with Rails is your tour guide.

Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf

Date: 2008-10-28

ISBN: 1934356123

Page: 196 pages

Size: 2,8 MB

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不过感觉最困扰中国用户的还是两个问题：

1. 过多的简化的山寨版的Facebook，很多根本不具有开发很多根本不具有开发API
2. Facebook的网速真的不敢恭维，感觉在这方面Google比它强多了，看来要解决这个问题只能等facebook中国分公司的成立了。速度慢必然造成很多Javascript程序的加载失败，有时就不知道是自己程序错误还是网速的问题，同时调试简直就是一场噩梦。