Example:

Here is an example of an OpenlySociable Micro app, which implements the ‘Friend List’ app from the OpenSocial documentation site:

require 'openly_sociable_micro'

OpenSocial.make_app :ListFriends

module ListFriends::Controllers
  class Index < R '/'
    def get
      @title = "Friend List" 
      render :index
    end
  end
end

module ListFriends::Views
  def index
    javascript :friends
    div(:id => "message")
  end
end

OpenSocial.start_mongrel :ListFriends, :port => 3301, :root => "/" 

Here the ‘javascript :friends’ refers to a friends.js widget-specific javascript file that lives in the same directory. OpenlySociable Micro uses the Builder XML library to wrap a view action’s results into an XML format served by Mongrel. This format is the Google Gadget format, which OpenSocial containers like Orkut and Ning recognize and display.

Getting Started:

• Install the gem as described below
• Read through the Camping mini-app
• Look through the examples found here
• Write your first widget!

Installation:

OpenlySociable Micro can be found here: http://svn.intridea.com/svn/public/openly_sociable/micro/

gem install openly_sociable_micro-0.0.1.gem

Plans to integrate OpenlySociable Micro into Rubyforge are underway. For now there is a trac setup here here .What is it?:

‘OpenlySociable Micro’ is a clean, simple and concise way of writing OpenSocial widgets. It uses the Camping microframework and Mongrel to allow developers to write self-contained widgets for OpenSocial-enabled websites with none of the overhead of a full-blown Rails application.