What I want to do is automatically post to facebook when a user post something on his profile (inside my app), I want to remember the user facebook credential to post automatically without asking for his credentials again.
Tumblr has already implement this functionality and I want to emulate it.
What is the best way to implement this functionality whitin a rails app?
Have you looked at http://facebooker.rubyforge.org/?
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I want to implement like and unlike functionality with likes count in website like instagram. But the website has no user login. It is open to all. So how can I implement this functionality? Please also provide references with your answer.
I'm aware I can use the ShareLinkTask class to share something on my favourite social network. I'm trying to add a button to share on twitter only. I don't want to enable the user to chose.
I can't find a workaround for that class, is it possible to do that?
There are many ways to share something with social networks. Few are:
ShareLinkTask
User will not have to SIgnIn, but would be presented with many networks.
External Browser Mechanism (Recommended)
You can launch a popup with BrowserControl in it and redirect it to URL of form
https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=your-tweet-text&url=http://google.com.
User will be asked to SIgnIN with all text filled and ready to Tweet, as shown (Desktop Browser)
Dedicated WP Libraries such as TweetSharp, LINQtoTwitter n others.
These will require you to use API 1.1 and send OAuth authenticated requests. Its a little comples if you only want Share capability.
It is not possil using the ShareLinkTask. You need to implement it by yourself, e.g: using TweetSharp.
I am building a WP7 Twitter client. The normal OAuth 1.0 flow involves obtaining a request token by navigating a web browser to https://api.twitter.com/1/oauth/authenticate with my app's consumer key; this page will show a login prompt and ask the user to authorize my app to perform actions on their behalf. Upon completion, this page will redirect to a callback URL supplied by my app, with the request token supplied as a parameter.
For web apps this makes sense. I don't understand how this is supposed to work for a standalone mobile/desktop app, though. The Twitter API documentation seems to imply that this should be a feasible option. They do offer an alternative xAuth mechanism that allows an app to gather username/password itself and then supply that directly to obtain an access token. The API documentation points out that this is an inferior option (as it requires the user to trust the app, not just Twitter, with their password), but I don't see how I have any reasonable alternative?
(there is also a PIN-based option, but that's a pretty burdensome solution for the user)
I just want to make sure I'm not missing anything obvious.
"For web apps this makes sense. I don't understand how this is
supposed to work for a standalone mobile/desktop app, though."
Just embed a web browser control in your app, and navigate to the twitter authentication page. Then detect the redirection to the callback url (using the Navigating event) and retrieve the parameter. Many twitter apps do that, it's basically the same as asking the user for the login and password, except that instead of your own controls you're displaying twitter's page.
Nope, you're correct. The option for a mobile/desktop application is either a pin-based option or to use xAuth. Once you have an xAuth application has an access token it is indistinguishable from OAuth (it only changes the authorisation workflow). One thing it does change, and this is very specific to Twitter, is that if you do use xAuth then your application will not be allowed to read or write Direct Messages. See Twitter's The Application Permission Model page for more information.
I was wondering if anyone can shed some light on setting up basic user authentication. I've installed the admin app into my project and it works great. But I need a basic user role that can have it's own registration page etc.
I need to see something like
domain.com/users/user.slug
would take them to their profile page
I'm also going to have nested resources, so a user can have a project associated to them.
domain.com/users/user.slug/projects/project.slug
or
domain.com/users/user.slug/project.slug
The admin piece worked great, but I have no idea how to setup registration etc for a user model?
I've used devise in the past with Rails and I'm wondering if anything like it currently exists? I've seen some discussion around warden. Is there a defacto solution that people are using or am I able to implement the admin app to handle this? Right now /accounts is protected and can only be accessed by the admin role.. so I can't have users go to accounts/new
Thanks
For now I basically just copied the admin app.. into my own Users app while using my own User model.
The user model is basically a direct port of the account model.. as is the session controller etc. Just switched the model names around.
I'm still not sure if this is the best approach or if I'm able to leverage the admin app to handle this also?
This solution is working, though again, I'm not sure if it's the optimal approach.
I know that you can connect an iOS App with facebook using facebook connect, a library provided by facebook to get easy access to the facebook services.
Can someone explain me how I can connect a OSX Cocoa Application with facebook? I don't get it and all I can find is how to create Apps inside facebook but what I want is to access facebook to show new from my facebook friends in my application.
Is there a library or a documented way on how to do this?
Thank you very much
twickl
I think there isn't a library for OSX apps (at least, not an official one). You can always use the Graph API to grab content from Facebook.
If you decide to go this way, I think that you will need some script in order to get an access token and have access to content inside your friends profiles.