Facebook::AccountKit

This gem aims to facilitate the communication with Facebook's Account Kit. It implements the server side described in the official docs.

As of now it's assuming you have enabled Require app secret in your Account Kit page.

It only uses the core modules available as part of Ruby (so nothing too crazy in here 😬...)

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'facebook-account-kit'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install facebook-account-kit

Usage

Somewhere in your application (probably as part of a new initializer) you should add the following:

  require 'facebook/account_kit'

  Facebook::AccountKit.config do |c|
    c.account_kit_version = 'v1.0' # or any other valid account kit api version
    c.account_kit_app_secret = 'your account kit secret'
    c.facebook_app_id = 'your facebook app id'
  end

All of that information you can find as part of your Facebook app's dashboard and account kit pages.

The process of communicating with Facebook is divided into two steps.

During the first one you will use the code (AKA authorization code) that the client provided in exchange for an access_token:

  client_code = params[:code] # this depends on how your controller was implemented
  token_exchanger = Facebook::AccountKit::TokenExchanger.new(client_code)
  access_token = token_exchanger.fetch_access_token

...and with that access token you can request for the user information:

  user = Facebook::AccountKit::UserAccount.new(access_token)
  user.fetch_user_info

Development

There are different targets in the Makefile to help you to run the tests:

• Run all tests: make test
• Run unit tests: make test.unit
• Run integration tests: make test.integration

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/nicholaspufal/facebook-account-kit