Most of what I needed was here. Facebook does a good job with the documentation overall. The missing piece of the puzzle is how to execute the FQL…

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@graph = Koala::Facebook::API.new

@graph.get_connections("me", "mutualfriends/#{friendsuid}")
#=> yields all our mutual friends

#can also retrieve many objects at one time...
@graph.get_objects([1007413,929972])

I’m not quite sure how to best run the facebook query language(FQL)

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SELECT name,description,geometry,latitude,longitude,checkin_count,display_subtext FROM place WHERE page_id=110506962309835

Above would give me a hash of all the attributes of Palo Alto, CA. Getting place info via FQL seems rather straight forward. Again, it’s the integration that I am struggling with.

Gathering a hash of friends’ location wasn’t a killer, though it did take some trial and error…

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friends_location = get_connections("me", "friends", :fields => "name, id, location")

What I need is a FQL wrapper and to create a lib within my own app that just passes the parameters to the models and emcompasses all the interaction with the external FB open graph.

Koala

• FQL
• self.make_request line 59