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Ruby on Rails Facebook Graph API OAuth error #506 Duplicate status message

I have a Rails application that is posting to Facebook. I put a rescue to prevent the error of posting the same message twice. I would like to have my app just notify the user and move on, but I cannot seem to rescue this error.

This is my code: 

begin
  current_user.facebook.feed!(:message => 'THIS IS A TEST PLEASE IGNORE::Hello, Facebook!')
rescue FbGraph::Unauthorized
  flash[:alert] = "Already Posted"
end
redirect_to show(@track)

The error I get with this code is:

OAuthException :: (#506) Duplicate status message

Solution

  • Why are rescuing from FbGraph::Unauthorized when you're getting an OAuthException error?

    begin
  current_user.facebook.feed!(:message => 'THIS IS A TEST PLEASE IGNORE::Hello, Facebook!')
rescue OAuthException
  flash[:alert] = "Already Posted"
end
redirect_to show(@track)