[Facebooker-talk] New publishing API

[Christopher Redinger]

FYI, I couldn't get the migration to generate. I went into
publisher_generator.rb and commented out the unless (and end) line
because it wasn't getting in there, even though I didn't have the
migration already. Then it worked.

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Mike Mangino
<mmangino at elevatedrails.com> wrote:
> I've added support for the new message templates. Check out the
> documentation (http://facebooker.rubyforge.org/ and
> http://facebooker.rubyforge.org/classes/Facebooker/Rails/Publisher.html in
> particular)
>
> If you've already created a publisher, you will need to re-run the
> script/generate command to create a new migration. By default, Facebooker
> will now keep track of your template ids. To send a message using the new
> API, you'll need to create two methods. The first returns the templates. For
> example:
>
> class MyPublisher < Facebooker::Rails::Publisher
>   def publish_action_template
>     one_line_story_template "{*actor*} did stuff with {*friend*}"
>     one_line_story_template "{*actor*} did stuff"
>     short_story_template "{*actor*} has a title {*friend*}",
> render(:partial=>"short_body")
>     short_story_template "{*actor*} has a title",
> render(:partial=>"short_body")
>     full_story_template "{*actor*} has a title {*friend*}",
> render(:partial=>"full_body")
>   end
>
> The name of the method needs to end in _template.
>
> To register this template, you can  call
>
> MyPublisher.register_publish_action
>
> or, to register all templates in a publisher, you can call
>
> MyPublisher.register_all_templates
>
>
> Facebooker will store the template id and the template name in the
> facebook_templates table.
>
> To send a message from a stored template, you'll need to create another
> method that registers the data:
>
>  def publish_action(f)
>    from f
>    data :friend=>"Mike"
>  end
>
> Then, you can call
> MyPublisher.deliver_publish_action
>
> Facebooker will look up the template id automatically.
>
> Let me know if you have any issues with this.
>
> Mike
> --
> Mike Mangino
> http://www.elevatedrails.com
>
>
>
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