I am working on a quick Facebook application for a company called Flat World Knowledge. Basically I have 4 days to build the application - it has to be done by Tuesday. Because of the simplicity of deployment on Morph Exchange I decided to deploy the application on their platform. I don't have time to setup a full Rails deployment environment.
One problem. Facebook applications require access to the Facebook API. I used rfacebook because that is the library I have used in the past and could quickly get the application done. (Facebooker is another library worth looking at if you are building a Facebok Application). I deployed the application but it wouldn't start. I did some checking and finally found their deployment log. Turns out the Facebook gems are not installed. There is a way to package up your gems into your project. (This site will help as well.) With the popularity of Facebook applications growing and the need for scalability on demand I would think that having the Facebook gems already in place would be a must for a platform like MorphExchange. I submitted a ticket yesterday and haven't heard back yet. Hopefully they are responsive. I deployed on Morph for the speed of deployment. The clock is ticking for me.
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Hey, Justin!
Already alerted the guys on this.
Thanks for the shout out. Will keep you posted.
Best.
alain
I contacted tech support about the issue. Once again you guys came through and they installed the gems I needed. I am with family right now so I haven’t had a chance to deploy the application again, but I am looking forward to it. Thanks again to the guys at MorphExchange.
One more thing. I don’t need it for my application but to cover the full spectrum of required gems for Facebook applications it might be handy to have the Facebooker gem installed as well:
gem install facebooker
and here is the project:
http://facebooker.rubyforge.org/