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The facebook app I worked on with aussie startup RedBubble has gone live: Which Artist Are You?

I used fellow RORO Hoan’s facebook-rails plugin which was really nice to use, but it’s been discontinued by him and doesn’t support any style of TDD/BDD. Though I’m continuing some level of support and patch integration for those who need it, from now on it’s rfacebook all ze way.

The facebook app development process can be much more painful than the usual, because:

1. You have to grok the user interaction process (installed, not-installed, etc), and
2. All your testing needs to be through facebook so it can render the FBML etc
3. There’s no user interface guidelines, and every app does their own thing instead of using the standard FBML tags
4. Their documentation is patchy to say the least (though they’re getting better)

The application itself really is dead simple though, most time is spent tweaking the FBML tags and visuals.

Give it a burl and post your feedback on the discussion board.