Facebook on Rails

Facebook on Rails CardinalBlue info@cardinalblue.com Ruby Tuesday 2009.10.20 Friday, October 23, 2009

40% of all Internet Users in North America are on Facebook! 300 million Facebook users around the world Friday, October 23, 2009

Facebook Trends ( ) 73 Friday, October 23, 2009

Facebook Apps Boom Friday, October 23, 2009

Friday, October 23, 2009

Demographic Trends • More female gamers • More younger (ages 8-15) gamers • More older (ages 50+) gamers Friday, October 23, 2009

FB Games are Social • Trend #1: Virtual Worlds • e.g.,YoVille, PetSociety • Trend #2: Customization & Personalization • e.g., Nintendo’s “Mii” avatars, Buddy Poke • Trend #3: Collections and Wish Lists • e.g., Maﬁa Wars • Trend #4: Interaction and Engagement • Farm Town, FarmVille, Barn Buddy • Trend #5: Narrative and Missions Friday, October 23, 2009

FB Games are Social • Trend #6: Gift Invites • e.g., Lil Green Patch, Give a Heart • Trend #7: Donations as Revenue • e.g., SpareChange, PayPal • Trend #8: Virtual Goods • e.g., Maﬁa Wars, PetSociety • Trend #9: Recruiting Users • e.g., FarmVille, Restaurant City, Tycoons • Trend #10: Capitalizing on Player Resources • e.g., All that Glitters, Photo-of-the-Day Friday, October 23, 2009

FBML Application Architecture Friday, October 23, 2009

Facebook apps on Rails • Rails 2.3.3 • Facebook API via Facebooker • Hosted on Heroku • Monitor via NewRelic Friday, October 23, 2009

User model Facebook UIDs are 64-bit, so need bigint for User#id create_table :users, :id => false do |t| t.column :id, "bigint PRIMARY KEY", :null => false ... t.timestamps end Associations can be done based on user_id create_table :balloons t.column :user_id, :bigint ... t.timestamps end Friday, October 23, 2009

Facebooker • Wrapper for Facebook API • Facebooker::User to query user data • Facebooker::Publisher for feeds/notiﬁcations Friday, October 23, 2009

Preload FQL • Facebooker::User to query user data • Since query can take 500ms or more, use Preload FQL to pre-query the data preload_fql = Hash.new preload_fql[:preload_user_data] = { :pattern => ".*", :query => "SELECT name,birthday_date FROM user WHERE uid={*user*};" } Facebooker::Admin.new(Facebooker::Session.create).set_app_pro perties({:preload_fql => preload_fql.to_json}) • Obtain the preloaded data on every page: params[:fb_sig_user_data] Friday, October 23, 2009

Open Stream API • Facebooker::Publisher for feeds/notiﬁcations • Facebook has deprecated template bundles • Instead use the Open Stream API: <script> var attachment = {'media':[{'type':'image', 'src':'http:// cardinalblue.com/images/cblue_logo_white100.png', 'href':'http:// cardinalblue.com'}]}; Facebook.streamPublish('Hello Cardinal Blue', attachment); </script> Friday, October 23, 2009

Functional tests with facebook_get test "requires-login page, logged in" do facebook_get :install assert_response :success assert_nil facebook_redirect_url end test "requires-login page, not logged in" do # access a page that requires login facebook_get :install, :fb_sig_user => nil assert_response :success assert_not_nil facebook_redirect_url assert facebook_redirect_url.match("http://www.facebook.com/install.php") end Friday, October 23, 2009

Heroku Friday, October 23, 2009

Scaled to over 10000 requests per minute Friday, October 23, 2009

Heroku features • Uses nginx, thin, postgres, Amazon EC2 • Easy Deployment: git push heroku master • Flexible Scaling: heroku dynos +1 • Free Memcache: Rails.cache • Delayed Job: facebook_session.send_notification(...) facebook_session.send_later(:send_notification,...) • New Relic Friday, October 23, 2009

New Relic Facebooker Friday, October 23, 2009

Can set up custom tracers: Facebook/query Facebook/notify Facebook/feed class NewrelicTracer def self.query yield end class << self add_method_tracer :query, 'Custom/Facebook/query' end end NewrelicTracer.query do location = facebook_session.user.current_location end Friday, October 23, 2009

Observations • Facebook is growing • Facebook games are social • Rails + Facebooker = Facebook app • Heroku is fun (and scalable) Friday, October 23, 2009

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Facebook on Rails

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