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Algorithms and Rails: Depth-first Search and social networks – How to social network your site.

OK, you’re a developer for some facebook/linkedIn social networking clone where each user has a bunch of contacts. Of course, a user’s contacts also have contacts, who have contacts etc.

What makes your site unique is that you’ve a special “FriendMap” page where you and all your friends and all their friends, etc. are all represented by little circles (or avatars or whatever). The map shows you in the middle with your immediate friends nearest you with a little arrow pointing from your avatar to theirs, then from them to their friends, etc.

Continuing Facebook Applications with Ruby On Rails – The next chapter.

This is the continuing tutorial from the last post Tutorial on developing a Facebook platform application with Ruby On Rails where we can take the social recipe application and add some more Facebook features including posting to the feed, profile boxes, profile actions, the Facebook Query Language and sending out invitations to a user’s friends to come join in the cooking fun (oh boy).

RFacebook: a Ruby Client for Facebook API 1.0+ – All aboard the Facebook train.

I spent last night writing a Ruby client module called RFacebook for the new Facebook API (v1.0). I used the new PHP5 client as a guide, and also a few techniques used by Alpha Chen in his older Ruby client.

Using the Digg API with Ruby on Rails – Facebook and Digg? Hmmm….

This tutorial will cover grabbing your most recent submitted articles and displaying the title and number of diggs in a list. With this code you can easily expand to grab any data you wish using the Digg API.

Ruby on Rails on Nokia N800 – That’s a phone, right?

The reasons for this are mainly that the idea of a wireless web server in my pocket is pretty intriguing. Think about it. If you’re at an event with Wi-Fi you can just point people to an IP address and hey presto they have access to your details, or a set of photos, or whatever you want to show them.

Ruby on Rails continuously integrated with Bamboo – An alternative to Capistrano?

Since I tripped over a few things setting up Bamboo for Rails, I thought it would be good to share my approach. After my last post, someone from Atlassian thought that would be a good idea as well, so, what the heck.

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