For a while my team has been working on a “shell” of a product for RoR apps to be integrated with Facebook. After testing out many options we decided to go with Facebooker. After going through many code tutorials (here and here), I still felt very lost (which isn’t hard, lets face it, I am not a programmer) but not really because of the technical stuff, more so in my opinion a Facebook app has like 5 or 10 standard components and I didn’t really feel they were all documented… frankly I was shocked there wasn’t a “here is a RoR app with all the facebook stuff all setup, just develop your app here”.

Now I understand why this wouldn’t be for everyone, you really should understand what you are doing before you get started and not just use something without having a grasp of what is going on, but I view it like a JavaScript library, once you do understand what is going on, why should everyone who wants to build a RoR facebook app have to redo the work over and over and over. So we at PBG will be releasing a set of Facebook code on Git which is basically a RoR app with a lot of the facebook stuff already setup. This includes:

1. Adding the App to Your Facebook Account
2. Inviting Your Friends to Use It
3. Instructional Pages
4. Adding an Icon to your App Sidebar
5. Notifying your friends you added the app in your feed
6. On Your App page showing the friends also using this app
7. Facebooky stylesheets for the whole thing

The code, known as RoRBook, will be available here as we update it. Requests, feedback and help are always welcome.