Recently I was asked to look into doing some customizations for the Mephisto blog for a customer. I figured “well it’s Rails, and I know rails, so sure I could do it”. However, thirty minutes after opening up the code I decided that Mephisto is no longer really a Rails application. I know I’m going [...]
This app was tricky in two ways. First it was the first real Facebook app I have done, which meant there was a large learning curve as things that work just fine with a regular Rails site some times just don’t work with Facebook. Ajax and JavaScript in particular are completely different, and require [...]