One of the many thredUP projects I'm fond of is the Daily Thred. Every weekday, two of the Moms here at thredUP post a new article that is discussed in the chat tray on the right side of the page. This chat tray was built from scratch utilizing the Facebook Graph API and FQL with JavaScript.
One of the many challenges that surfaced was collecting metrics on activity occurring in the chat tray, since all the activity was stored in the Facebook databases. I didn't want to pull these metrics with JavaScript and since our server language of choice is Ruby, I turned to FbGraph, which is a full-stack Ruby Facebook Graph API wrapper.
It's a cinch to install and the usage is intuitive - I couldn't have been happier with the gem. After I finished implementing the metrics for the chat tray, I deployed to production and quickly found a problem. The way our chat tray works is as follows: every article is tied to a Facebook Post object. All comments made in the chat tray are Facebook Comment objects where the parent_id is the Post's id. Simple enough. So to fetch all the comments for a post to analyze the results for the metrics, I did the following with FbGraph:
The problem was the number of comments returned maxed out at 50. Since some of our chat tray conversations have over 300 comments, it was crucial I had access to every comment. I tried some standard ActiveRecord conventions like post.comments.limit(1000) to no avail. After a round of Google searches and sifting through some Github issues, I came across someone who had a similar concern. Their solution involved paging through the comments. This wasn't sufficient for me so I went poking around in the gem.
After a quick cd `bundle show fb_graph` command, I started to peruse around the gem's lib files. Inside the Post class, I noticed the associated @_comments_ object was created through the Collection class. Once inside the Collection class (/lib/fb_graph/collection.rb), I noticed there were four variables that def fetch_params checked for - one of which was 'limit'. So after adjusting my script like below, all was good.
