Tutorial for restful_authentication on Rails with Facebook Connect in 15 minutes
[Update (10 April 2010): we've edited the tutorial to bring it up to date with the current incarnations of Facebook Connect, Facebooker and Rails.]
Back in June 2007 I wrote a popular tutorial on writing Facebook platform applications with Ruby On Rails. Time has moved on and Facebook has launched Facebook Connect which allows you to integrate Facebook into your own sites allowing authentication, registration, friend connecting, and Facebook feed posting in the context of your application. Mashable has a great post on 10 great implementations of Facebook Connect including Joost, Vimeo and Disqus.
At Made By Many we are fans of the possibilites of Facebook Connect for lowering barriers to registration, extracting social graph and injecting your social media functions into the daily online life of users. There is little point trying to create a “new” facebook on your site. Your unique social proposition lies elsewhere with your content, community and tools.
