How To: Develop Facebook Application using Heroku

Dated: 17/06/2012 Author:prasad How To:

The Programmers who know php or ruby can easily develop a facebook app. To create a facebook app required thinks are

Domain name
Server space with https server
programming skill on php or python or Ruby

But most of the programmers didn’t have server space. Even though they are pick some free server space, it doesn’t have https connection. To solve this facebook intriduced heroku, if we dont have server space, then we can easily host our app in this domain for free.

Creating the facebook application using Ruby On Rails or PHP is a difficult task, where as using applications Heroku will make this task of creating facebook application easier.

1] Go to https://developers.facebook.com/apps

2] Click the Create New App button on top right corner.

3] Give name for application, we are using server space of Heroku for our facebook application.

4] Development environment for facebook app have to be choosen and email address for heroku registration should be provided. There are four development environment available to create facebook application.

PHP
Ruby
Python
Node.js

5] A URL will be provided after clicking the create button, in that URL our facebook application will be present and we have to give permission to access our basic account information.

For Tobby news facebook applicaiotn URL provided is https://growing-stream-3414.herokuapp.com/