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1. I am pretty sure that the permissions around the the Mini Feed, require that the user hass added the application. Put this call at the top of the controller.

   ensure_application_is_installed_by_facebook_user

   Note: Facebook will fail silently if the user has not added the app
2. Create a class that extends Facebooker::Rails::Publisher. You can put this class anywhere but Rails will auto load it if you put it in RAILS_ROOT/lib.

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   #File: lib/facebooker_publisher.rb class FacebookerPublisher < Facebooker::Rails::Publisher

3. Define a method that will handle your Mini Feed message. This method can take any number of arguments. For a Mini Feed you typically would need to pass in the user that the message is for. You must set which user's Mini-Feed is being published to with the from method. It is best if the first line in you method indicates which type of message to publish to Facebook, in this case this is done via "send_as :action".

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   #File: lib/facebooker_publisher.rb Method: mini_feed def mini_feed(user) send_as :action self.from( user) title "just learned how to send a Mini-Feed Story using Facebooker." body "#{fb_name(user)} just checked out the #{link_to("Facebooker Tutorial", :controller => "messaging", :action => "mini_feed")} Mini-Feed lesson." image_1(image_path("fbtt.png")) image_1_link(outline_path(:only_path => false)) RAILS_DEFAULT_LOGGER.debug("Sending mini feed story for user #{user.id}") end

   The Publisher instance that gets created is a proxy for each of the Facebooker messaging types. You can look at the code or documentation so see what methods are supported. The following options are supported by "send_as" and the class to look at for available methods.
   • :action => Facebooker::Feed::Action
   • :story => Facebooker::Feed::Story
   • :templatized_action => Facebooker::Feed::TemplatizedAction
   • :email => Facebooker::User send_email method
   • :notification => Facebooker::Session send_notification method
4. Now you can deliver your Mini-Feed news item by calling deliver_<method>

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   #File: app/controllers/messaging_controller.rb Method: test_mini_feed def test_mini_feed FacebookerPublisher.deliver_mini_feed(facebook_session.user) flash[:notice] = "Check your Mini-Feed in a little while. You should see a news item from Facebooker." redirect_to(:action => "mini_feed") end

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