Comparison of two Ruby approaches to Facebook API

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When I see non-idiomatic Ruby code, it tells me one of two things. The first assumption I make is that whoever wrote the code is not a Ruby programmer. That's usually the case.

I've been using rfacebook lately and this is definitely the case. I'm constantly going back to the rfacebook source to figure out how to use it and every time I come across code that strikes me as highly unrubyish (what's with all the gratuitous "return"s?).

I did not know facebooker existed. I will be looking into it very soon.

Wow that is a lot written about very little. Some abstraction == good, brittle == bad.

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