Posts tagged with: "bebo"
April 3, 2008
Intridea's Bebo plug-in featured in Bebo and Inside Facebook
We launched our Bebo plug-in (Beboist), the day the Bebo API became public. Beboist was the first Ruby interface for the Bebo platform, and was selected by Bebo to be their official Ruby API. Always pleasant to see something like this gain traction and attention, even several months after release!
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April 3, 2008
Beboist -- Updates and Attention
Our friends at Bebo have selected our Beboist plugin to be one of their featured Bebo Social API libraries.
This joyous occasion can only be properly acknowledged by the announcement that Beboist has now been moved to Github, a Git repository host where the cool kids play nowadays. We feel that Github’s convenient fork-edit-push code publishing mechanism will only help Beboist grow even quicker to become a prominent solution for working with the Bebo API.
The old SVN repository will still remain up, but all future development will take place on Github.
So, without further ado — here’s the Beboist Github repository:
http://github.com/skyfallsin/beboist/tree/master
You will install this plugin from your RAILS_ROOT directory as such:
git clone git://github.com/skyfallsin/beboist.git vendor/plugins/beboistGit has a slight learning curve — here are a few resources to help you get started if you have never used it before: SVN to Git Crash Course, Git Tutorial
Intridea’s Public Trac is still up for bug reports.
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January 10, 2008
Beboist - A Rails Plugin for the Bebo Social API
UPDATE
Click here for the latest on Beboist
The Beboist plugin provides a Rails interface to the Bebo Social Networking API.
The plugin was designed from the ground-up to be flexible enough to accommodate
any changes to the API, while at the same time providing a clean interface
that will be familiar to most Rails developers.
Setup
Ensure that the json gem is installed on your system and the Beboist plugin is installed in your vendor/plugins folder:
gem install json
script/plugin install http://svn.intridea.com/svn/public/beboist</pre>
Generate your config/bebo.yml file using
script/generate beboist_settings</pre>
Fill in your appropriate app settings in config/bebo.yml. Ensure that your app name is right.
Generate the first migration for your users table using:
script/generate beboist_user_migration</pre>
Migrate your database using
rake db:migrate</pre>
In your application.rb, insert the following filters:
before_filter :reject_unadded_users
before_filter :find_bebo_user</pre>
Write your app, and keep an eye on your logs to catch any possible error messages.
API Reference
The methods listed in the Bebo API Documentation are mapped to Ruby classes in the following manner:
users.get_info(uids => "1,2,3", fields => "first_name, last_name")
# BECOMES
BeboUsers.get_info :uids => [1,2,3], :fields => ["first_name", "last_name"]
Notes
The Beboist plugin uses Bebo’s JSON API, and the ‘json’ gem to directly convert JSON objects to Ruby. It works with Rails 2.0+, but has not been tested on Rails 1.2. Check the README for more details, and file tickets at Intridea’s Public Trac
