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Ruby on Rails and Problems with Facebook Rake Task

dennis 1 comment Ruby on Rails

Dec 22

If you’re new to developing Facebook applications with Rails then here’s a tip for you. You’ll need to install the RFacebook gem for starters: gem install rfacebook. If you read any of the online tutorials you’ll read that you need to run the rake facebook:setup task to create the facebook.yml file. You may end up seeing the following error message:

Don’t know how to build task ‘facebook:setup’

If so, you’ll need to install the rfacebook plugin using script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rfacebook/plugins/rfacebook_on_rails. After you install the plugin then rake facebook:setup should run perfectly and create your default facebook.yml file.

One comment

  1. Neil / October 23, 2010

    I did everthing mentioned here and in other places but I still get the same error when I do the rake command.

    C:\InstantRails\rails_apps\connect_tutorial>gem install rfacebook
    Successfully installed rfacebook-0.9.8
    1 gem installed
    Installing ri documentation for rfacebook-0.9.8…
    Installing RDoc documentation for rfacebook-0.9.8…

    C:\InstantRails\rails_apps\connect_tutorial>rake facebook:setup
    (in C:/InstantRails/rails_apps/connect_tutorial)
    rake aborted!
    Don’t know how to build task ‘facebook:setup’

    (See full trace by running task with –trace)

    C:\InstantRails\rails_apps\connect_tutorial>ruby script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/rfacebook/plugins/rfacebook_on_rails

    C:\InstantRails\rails_apps\connect_tutorial>rake facebook:setup
    (in C:/InstantRails/rails_apps/connect_tutorial)
    rake aborted!
    Don’t know how to build task ‘facebook:setup’

    (See full trace by running task with –trace)

    C:\InstantRails\rails_apps\connect_tutorial>

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