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How to crush the candy crush saga

My facebook feed has been flooded with unsolicited app requests from “Candy crush saga” for months. This is how you can block those. Visit this url:

https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=blocking

For habitual offenders, who think that the sole purpose of your life on planet earth is to use random FB apps, you can block all app requests from them as well.

Do it once, and live happily ever after ;) I know you have been putting this off for quite some time (even if you were aware of how to do it). Let’s do it today, and finish this thing for once and all =P This is the day we fight back!

How to add scope/permissions to a facebook app when using Koala gem

I keep forgetting it again and again and spend too much time searching for it on google with no success, and finally look at the source code. Then I think that why didn’t I look at the source code in the first place, and why do I most of the times rely on google to solve the problem……what if there was no GOOGLE….. ;)

So here it is…a step in that direction (self help, and maybe help for others whose first instinct is to search on google), for the record:

Koala::Facebook::OAuth.new(app_id, app_secret, callback_url).url_for_oauth_code(:permissions => “email,publish_stream”)

You need to pass the scope as an argument to url_for_oauth_code method.

And for anyone who wants to realize how easy it was if my first instict was to look at the source, here goes the source code: