Hey everyone, Happy new year! I hope you’ve all had a great start to 2012 — and what better way to kick the year off than with a new version of Koala? Goodbye, REST API, someday Facebook has finally ported over the last of the REST API functions to the Graph API, meaning that anything [...]
Hey all, I’m happy to announce the release of Koala 1.3.0rc1! New Features 1.3.0rc1 provides support for several new Facebook features, a number of bug fixes, and other improvements: API#set_app_restrictions uses the new Graph API to set Facebook app restrictions OAuth#url_for_dialog builds the URLs for the various Facebook dialogs GraphCollection.parse_page_url now exposes useful functionality for [...]
Hey everyone, I’m excited to announce the release of Koala 1.2 beta1! This has been a big, fun release, with some big internal changes. Faraday As of 1.2beta1, we use (and depend on) the Faraday library to make HTTP requests, replacing our homebrew Typhoeus and Net::HTTP adapters. This is a big change, so let’s go [...]
Hey everyone, I’m happy to announce the release of Koala 1.1! Don’t crowd — there’re plenty of new features for everyone. Batch API Support Perhaps our most significant new features is support for Facebook’s Batch Requests, which lets you make multiple requests in a single request. The Batch API is incredibly powerful, and we’re [...]
Hey everyone, I’m happy to announce the release of Koala 1.1rc3! Looking back, the previous release should have been a beta, since we’ve made a number of changes and improvements. Batch API Interface Change Most significantly, we’ve made a breaking change to the Batch API interface. This was not an easy choice, but the original implementation [...]
Hey everyone, I’m excited to announce the release of the Koala 1.1 release candidate! The big news here is support for Facebook’s batch API, which lets you bundle a number of operations into one request from Facebook: me, friends = Koala::Facebook::GraphAPI.batch do @api.get_object(‘me’) @api.get_connections(‘me’, ‘friends’) end We’ve also added new convenience methods, improved others, and [...]
Hey everyone, Happy birthday to Koala! The first version of the gem was released exactly one year ago today, and boy has time flown. It seems like just yesterday that Koala was 0.4, crawling along with just Graph API support; now, all of the sudden, it’s fully-featured, stable, and one of the most popular Ruby [...]
Hey everyone, I’m very excited to announce the release of the Koala 1.0 release candidate! With this version, the 1.0 gem is effectively finished. Assuming everything goes well, we’re on track to officially launch 1.0 on May 1st (conveniently, the one-year anniversary of the gem’s first public release). Changelog So what’s in the release candidate? [...]
Hey everyone, We’re excited to announce the release of Koala 1.0 beta 2! Thank you all for the feedback and ideas that you’ve sent and we’ve incorporated over the last month — thanks to them, Koala is much stronger and easier to use than ever before. Revised Photo Uploads With this beta, we’ve revamped photo [...]
Hey everyone, We’re very excited to announce the beta release of Koala 1.0! This is a huge release, well deserving of the version bump. With this update, we’ve expanded Koala to support the entire current Facebook platform and have made improvements throughout the library to make Koala faster, easier, and more stable. Photo Uploads You [...]