From: Lin Jen-Shin <godfat@...>
Date: 2010-05-06T18:43:22+09:00
Subject: [ANN] rest-graph 1.0.0 - super simple facebook open graph api client

= rest-graph 1.0.0
by Lin Jen-Shin (aka godfat-真常[http://godfat.org])
  godfat (XD) godfat.org

== LINKS:

* {github}[http://github.com/godfat/rest-graph]
* {rubygems}[http://rubygems.org/gems/rest-graph]
* {rdoc}[http://rdoc.info/projects/godfat/rest-graph]

== DESCRIPTION:

 super simple facebook open graph api client

== FEATURES:

* simple graph api call
* simple fql call
* utility to extract access_token and check sig in cookies

== SYNOPSIS:

 require 'rest-graph'

 # every option is optional!!
 rg = RestGraph.new(:access_token => '...',
                    :graph_server => 'https://graph.facebook.com/',
                    :fql_server   => 'https://api.facebook.com/',
                    :accept       => 'text/javascript',
                    :lang         => 'en-us', # this affect search
                    :auto_decode  => true,    # decode by json
                    :app_id       => '123',
                    :secret       => '1829')
 rg.get('me')
 rg.post('feed/me', :message => 'bread!')

 # for rack
 lambda{ |env|
   rg = RestGraph.new(:app_id => '123', :secret => '1829')
   rg.parse_rack_env!(env)  # auto save access_token if sig checked
   rg.access_token # => ...
   rg.data['uid']  # => facebook uid
 }

 # for fully blown cookies hash
 rg = RestGraph.new(:app_id => '123', :secret => '1829')
 rg.parse_cookies!(cookies) # auto save access_token if sig checked
 rg.access_token # => ...
 rg.data['uid']  # => facebook uid

 # for fbs in cookies
 app_id = '456'
 rg = RestGraph.new(:app_id => '123', :secret => '1829')
 fbs = cookies["fbs_#{rg.app_id}"]
 rg.parse_fbs!(fbs)         # auto save access_token if sig checked
 rg.access_token # => ...
 rg.data['uid']  # => facebook uid

 # fql query
 rg.fql('SELECT name FROM page WHERE page_id="123"')

== REQUIREMENTS:

* tested with MRI 1.8.7 and 1.9.1
* gem install rest-client
* gem install json (optional)
* gem install json_pure (optional)
* gem install rack (optional, to parse access_token in HTTP_COOKIE)

== INSTALL:

 > gem install rest-graph
 # or if you want rails plugin and bleeding edge
 > script/plugin install git://github.com/godfat/rest-graph.git

== LICENSE:

  Apache License 2.0

  Copyright (c) 2010, Lin Jen-Shin (aka godfat 真常)

  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
  You may obtain a copy of the License at

     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
implied.
  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  limitations under the License.