Hey everyone, I’m happy to announce that Koala 0.7.0 has been officially released! This version includes two major updates: A new RealtimeUpdates class, which can be used to manage subscriptions for realtime user updates (see http://developers.facebook.com/docs/api/realtime) Added greatly improved testing using mocks rather than live calls to Facebook; these are now the default set of [...]
Hey everyone, It’s high time I unveiled the OAuth Playground – a microsite designed to make it dead simple to get valid OAuth codes and access tokens so you can focus on building your apps and libraries. As I discovered creating Koala (which powers the Playground), working with OAuth requires an incredibly repetitious cycle of generating and [...]
Hey everyone, I’m excited to announce the release of Koala 0.6.0! This update is, in many ways, unfortunate: the incorporation of Facebook’s old REST API into Koala. If the Graph API were fully functional, this would be unnecessary. Since the REST API is unavoidable, though — there’s a lot you can’t yet do with the [...]
Earlier this week I wrote a blog post about F8 and the Context Optional Hackathon for the company blog. It’s great to see my thoughts on the big takeaways from F8 and what we learned at the Hackathon published on the company site; it’s even better to have kicked off the engineering category with the [...]
Check out Koala’s official documentation on our Github wiki! It has all the same content, but as of version 0.5.0, the wiki is more up-to-date. I’m excited to announce the first release of Koala (http://github.com/arsduo/koala), a lightweight and flexible Facebook Graph library for Ruby. Introductions all around Using Koala, you have complete access to the [...]