The document outlines 13 steps to start developing Facebook apps using Heroku: 1. Create Heroku and Facebook app accounts 2. Create a Heroku app linked to the Facebook app 3. Add cloud services and download the Heroku Toolbelt to fetch the app source code from Heroku 4. Configure a local development Facebook app, set environment variables, and start a local server to test changes before committing code to Heroku.

1. Start developing
Facebook apps in 13 steps
Hamamatsu.rb#8 2011.10.12 @mackato
@see http://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/facebook
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2. 1. Create a Heroku account
http://www.heroku.com/
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3. 2. Create a Facebook app
https://developers.facebook.com/apps
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4. 3. Select Cloud Services
https://developers.facebook.com/apps/APP_ID/summary
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5. 4. Create a Heroku app
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6. 5. Go to your Facebook app on
Heroku
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7. 6. Download and Install Heroku
Toolbelt
http://toolbelt.herokuapp.com/
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8. 7. Log in from the CLI
% heroku login
Enter your Heroku credentials.
Email: mackato@gmail.com
Password:
Uploading ssh public key /Users/kato/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
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9. 8. Fetch App’s source code
https://floating-leaf-1045.herokuapp.com/
% git clone git@heroku.com:floating-leaf-1045.git hamamatsurb-demo
-o heroku
Cloning into hamamatsurb-demo...
remote: Counting objects: 86, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (78/78), done.
remote: Total 86 (delta 33), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (86/86), 58.72 KiB | 35 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (33/33), done.
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10. 9. Create another Facebook app
for development
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11. 10. Enter your local URL as Site
URL
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12. 11. Set Facebook Env Vars
Add Foreman to Gemfile
gem "foreman"
Create .env file in the root of your app
FACEBOOK_APP_ID=YOUR_DEVELOPMENT_APP_ID
FACEBOOK_SECRET=YOUR_DEVELOPMENT_APP_SECRET
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13. 12. Start local server
% foreman start
http://localhost:5000/
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14. 13. Commit and push your
changes
% git ci -am "add foreman gem"
% g push heroku
Counting objects: 7, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 466 bytes, done.
Total 4 (delta 3), reused 0 (delta 0)
...
To git@heroku.com:floating-leaf-1045.git
2ab1863..a9b4422 master -> master
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