Comments on: Using SSH Tunnels to develop Facebook Applications

By: will

will — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:36:22 +0000

hi guys,
do you know a way around this if remote port forwarding is disabled? thanks Will

By: Oliver

Oliver — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:49:48 +0000

Really simple and works great.
Thanks a lot.
That will make facebook development much easier.

By: abhishek

abhishek — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:38:04 +0000

Hi Joshua,

I was also trying my hand at heroku. (my first try at heroku, RoR and facebook app collectively)

A simple test program using Facebooker app is running quite nice on my dev env. And I have ported it to http://evntize.heroku.com/evntize
But now when I go to http://apps.facebook.com/evntize I see a blank page there. My canvas url is http://evntize.heroku.com/evntize
Facebooker.yml has public port as 80 local port as 3000 (not sure how can I check my local port though) have used my mail id (abhishek.mancoha@gmail.com) as my public_host_user_name

I am almost 100% sure that the problem is with the tunnel setup.
My first question is do I need to be running heroku rake facebooker:tunnel:background-start on heroku? Is it even possible because on lots of blog post I have seen that heroku doesn’t support ssh and root access. Then how to go about it?

Do you have facebook app demo/video on heroku?

Also I have included Facebooker in tmp\vendor\plugins of my app. Haven’t been able to install rails plugin Facebooker on heroku was getting the wrong version of marshal file on trying to install that?

Would be very thankful if you can help me out. Really want to go as fast as possible.

By: dbt

dbt — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:02:39 +0000

You're not binding to a privileged port, that's only stuff under 1024. So you don't need to log in as root to bind to 8090 at all. Try it!

By: shaneel

shaneel — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:31:58 +0000

Thankyou very much , finally i have a hope to start with.
Well done.
Please be prepared for more questions

By: Guy

Guy — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:44:14 +0000

Cool Blog!

I was doing it already though, without encryption… I don’t see why this is useful.

My problem was how to work from work

Except from that, editing the files locally is something you can’t compete with, although I’m using mercurial as a source code repository, this way I’m tracking changes and are able to remotely work on the project.

By: Robin Bolton

Robin Bolton — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:43:58 +0000

Excellent tip. Even with my current single command deployment process (Ant build file which calls rsync), your method will save loads of time during development.

By: Erez Segal

Erez Segal — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:21:17 +0000

Amazing! This should be on the main page of the developers wiki!

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Thu, 28 Feb 2008 07:36:47 +0000

[...] to have a second application, in developer mode, and mapped to a special port that forwards traffic to your local development machine through an ssh tunnel. Read my previous blog post on how to set this [...]

By: admin

admin — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:17:48 +0000

Philipp Wassibauer over at Maptales has expanded on this with instructions for how to do this on a Windows machine, using Putty.

Check it out:

http://maptalesteam.blogspot.com/2008/02/ssh-tunnel-for-local-facebook-and.html