Question

I’m trying to do something that doesn’t seem to hard, but I just can’t find how to achieve it. I have a web app with a leaderboard, and I would like to give the user the opportunity to share his score on facebook. There would be a link “publish to facebook” that would either bring up a popup, either redirect to a page on facebook, in both cases with a dialog to publish a story on his wall.

This has to be easy and very direct, the user should not be prompted for allowing an app or anything like that. However, it’s been quite a while since I’ve done any app do that : is it still possible ?

FYI this is a ruby on rails 3.2 app

Thanks for you time guys!

Answer 1

The best thing to do is to include the facebook javascript sdk in your app page and then just call the FB.ui method for opening a Feed Dialog.

You can also open up a popup of your own and direct it to the direct url of the same feed dialog:

http://www.facebook.com/dialog/feed?
  app_id=APP_ID&
  link=LINK_URL&
  picture=PICTURE_URL&
  name=NAME&
  caption=CAPTION&
  description=DESCRIPTION&
  message=MESSAGE_AS_THE_USER&
  redirect_uri=REDIRECT_URL

It’s all there in the feed dialog page.