see your hand in front of your, uh, face: facebook_exceptions

Sucks to be working hard on your Tamagotchi armadillo + tumblelogging viral Facebook mashup and see:

update

Official documentation is here.

As usual, it lives in the Fauna. Install via Piston, or otherwise the old-school way:

script/plugin install -x svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/fauna/facebook_exceptions/trunk

No tarballs/gems yet. Requires edge Rails, probably.

The support forum is here.

Seth Thomas Rasmussen says:

August 20, 2007 at 8:29 PM

What is the bigger picture here? How are Rails and Facebook interacting?
Ben says:

August 20, 2007 at 8:29 PM

Great work Evan, really handy for developing Rails-based Facebook apps.
jare care says:

August 20, 2007 at 8:29 PM

Nice work, Evan. I’ll definitely check this out.
Jonathan George says:

August 20, 2007 at 8:29 PM
Just a heads up—I had to add unloadable following the class ApplicationController line:
```
class ApplicationController
  unloadable

  def facebook_rescues_path(template_name)
...
```
Related to http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/6001 (see the last comment on the ticket).
evan says:

August 20, 2007 at 8:30 PM

That fix didn’t work for me… instead I had to remove unloadable from both regular ApplicationController (app/controllers/application.rb) and the version in facebook_exceptions.rb to get the overrides to stay loaded.

What Rails version are you using?
Lior says:

August 20, 2007 at 8:31 PM

This looks great—can you please elaborate on how to use it and install it for the less experienced?

I got the files from SVN—what is the next step?
evan says:

August 20, 2007 at 8:32 PM

If you ran the command above from the root of your Rails app, there isn’t any next step.

See Geoff’s article for more information on plugins.
ex_libris says:

August 20, 2007 at 8:33 PM

Lior >> Put the directory it in your vendor/plugins/ directory and it will load automagically.