Question

Which option is the best and easy way to post text or some other content on a Facebook page?

I’m looking for a direct way to put something there from my Rails application.

For instance, clicking on a button and automatically posting on my application and sending data to the facebook page?

I’ve built one for Twitter and the method I have looks like this:

def tweet(url)
  Twitter.configure do |config|
    config.consumer_key = APP_CONFIG['twitter_consumer_key']
    config.consumer_secret = APP_CONFIG['twitter_consumer_secret']
    config.oauth_token = APP_CONFIG['twitter_access_token']
    config.oauth_token_secret = APP_CONFIG['twitter_secret_token']
  end    
  shorted_url = shorten_url(url)
  Twitter.update("#{title} - #{shorted_url}")
end

Thanks.

Answer 1

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What's the easiest way, to post on my Facebook Wall through my Ruby on Rails App?

this is how my method look like:

def facebook_it(url)
  pages = FbGraph::User.me(APP_CONFIG['facebook_access_token']).accounts.first
  shorten_url = shorten_url(url) # create a bit.ly link
  pages.feed!(
    :message => "#{title}",
    :link => shorten_url,
    :description => "#{content[0..280]}"
  )
end

also I’ve created another method:

def share(url)
  tweet(url)
  facebook_it(url)
end

so I call it this way from the controller:

def publish
  url = job_url(@job)
  @job = Job.find(params[:id])
  @job.publish
  @job.share(url)
  ..
end

I don’t know if this is the better approach, but it’s working nice for me.

Hope this helps someone else.