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Share with facebook url, with summary and title but no need of OG Data
def share_with_facebook_url(opts)
# Generates an url that will 'share with Facebook', and can includes title, url, summary, images without need of OG data.
#
# URL generate will be like
# http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?s=100&p[title]=We also do cookies&p[url]=http://www.wealsodocookies.com&p[images][0]=http://www.wealsodocookies.com/images/logo.jpg&p[summary]=Super developer company
#
# For this you'll need to pass the options as
#
# { :url => "http://www.wealsodocookies.com",
# :title => "We also do cookies",
# :images => {0 => "http://imagelink"} # You can have multiple images here
# :summary => "My summary here"
# }
url = "http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?s=100"
parameters = []
opts.each do |k,v|
key = "p[#{k}]"
if v.is_a? Hash
v.each do |sk, sv|
parameters << "#{key}[#{sk}]=#{sv}"
end
else
parameters << "#{key}=#{v}"
end
end
url + parameters.join("&")
end
= link_to "Share with facebook", share_with_facebook_url({ :url => "http://www.wealsodocookies.com",
:title => "Freelance Rails developer",
:images => {0 => "http://wealsodocookies.com/images/logo.png"},
:summary => "Pragmatic Ruby on Rails development company" })
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