Ask YC: Facebooker or rfacebook?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=206511

by mattjung • 18 years ago

6 5 18 years ago

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I plan to integrate a part of my existing rails-application with facebook and came across two frameworks to integrate with facebook: rfacebook and Facebooker? Has anybody experience with both? What are the pros and cons of each? Thanks for any recommendation!

JamesBrooks• 18 years ago

I would choose facebooker. Development of rfacebook is dead, even the previous maintainer suggests using facebooker. You'll find for most of it they're really similar, provide you with similar functionality, one's in current development and one's dead, you pick :).

I have a few applications up using rfacebook and won't change though (it's too much effort), though all new project's I start (for work of course) will be with facebooker.

swombat• 18 years ago

And whatever you do, please, for the love of god, stay away from Facetime (some obscure library that some people used to develop an app I'm currently maintaining).

But yeah, Facebooker.

standardremix• 18 years ago

I played around with both for a couple of hours before deciding on this library:

http://pushrod.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/the-how-and-why-of-m...

Currently using it to develop: http://apps.facebook.com/dormtrader

Feel free to shoot me an email if you run into any snags: thecompanygardener@gmail.com

mattjung• 18 years ago

What were the reasons that you decided to write the wrapper code yourself (Facebooker e.g. looks pretty ruby-ish to me)?

bjclark• 18 years ago

The big difference between the two is that rFacebook is a giant hack of a library and even the guy that made it realizes this (and thus, doesn't even maintain it) and Facebooker is a set of Ruby objects that makes it so you don't even have to think about the API (not really).

rFacebooker is very php-ish (which means some people really like it, the friends for sale guys, for example).

The Facebooker library also has fixes to make RESTful routes work, and there's related library that makes asynchronous requests stupid easy (FacebookerMQ).

Ask YC: Facebooker or rfacebook?

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