[LRUG] Acceptance-testing facebook canvas applications

nicolas alpi nicolas.alpi at gmail.com
Fri Sep 9 10:42:16 PDT 2011


Yea this is what we did for the drinkaware fb tab app and it works fine.
On Sep 9, 2011 6:31 PM, "Mr Jaba" <the.jaba at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> In my, (admittedly limited) FB experience, a Facebook app is simply in a
> Rails Application sitting in an Iframe, so you can write acceptance tests
in
> the usual way without worrying about having to log into facebook etc. Once
> you get into interacting with their servers (graph API) etc though you
might
> have more trouble. At that point you might want to mock out the responses
> from their servers.
>
> Hope that helps, and isn't just stating the obvious!
>
> Tom
>
> On 9 September 2011 17:52, Tim Cowlishaw <tim at timcowlishaw.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm starting work on a facebook application that will sit in a canvas
>> tab on a facebook page. I've been looking around for info on how to
>> write acceptance tests for this sort of project but have so far drawn
>> a blank. Therefore, have any of you any experience of writing and
>> testing facebook apps with ruby (bonus points if you're using rspec
>> and/or capybara)?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tim
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