RFacebook Feature Set

You might be wondering what advantages RFacebook can give you in writing a Facebook app. Besides the obvious advantages of agile development in Rails, here is a quick list of the features available in the plugin and gem:

• View and Controller integration (url_for and redirect_to "just work")
• Works for Canvas, IFrame, and External applications
• Session management automatically uses fb_sig in lieu of cookies when in canvas
• Ensures security by checking signature given in canvas
• Configuration is done via facebook.yml (allowing multiple environments to be easily configured and versioned)
• Unit tested across both the API client (RFacebook) and the Rails plugin (RFacebook on Rails).
• Readable backtraces inside the Canvas
• Debug panel to help with common problems
• the interface won't break when Facebook alters the API (remote methods are invoked via method_missing)

If you'd like to see something new included in RFacebook, suggest it on the project page.