Facebook FQL Query with Ruby - ruby-on-rails

Question

I'm trying to do a simple GET with ruby to the Facebook fql.query method without success.
The url is basically structured like this:
https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=SELECT total_count FROM link_stat WHERE url = "http://twitter.com/"&format=json
I've read in a few posts here on StackOverflow about how to make those requests, but even tho I keep getting:
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `initialize': getaddrinfo: Name or service not known (SocketError)
On the first line of http_get function.
def http_get(domain,path,params)
return Net::HTTP.get(domain, "#{path}?".concat(params.collect { |k,v| "#{k}=#{CGI::escape(v.to_s)}" }.join('&'))) if not params.nil?
return Net::HTTP.get(domain, path)
end
def getFacebookStats(url)
params = {
:query => 'SELECT total_count FROM link_stat WHERE url = "' + url + '"',
:format => 'json'
}
http = http_get('https://api.facebook.com', '/method/fql.query', params)
puts http
end

Answer 1

The http call accepts a host, not a URL:
def http_get(domain,path,params)
path = unless params.blank
path + "?" + params.collect { |k,v| "#{k}=#{CGI::escape(v.to_s)}" }.join('&')
else
path
end
request = Net::HTTP.get(domain, path)
end
def get_facebook_stats(url)
params = {
:query => 'SELECT total_count FROM link_stat WHERE url = "' + url + '"',
:format => 'json'
}
http = http_get('api.facebook.com', '/method/fql.query', params)
puts http
end
Please do not use camel case on method names on Ruby.
If you want to make HTTPS calls, you will have to use a different call:
require 'net/http'
require 'net/https'
http = Net::HTTP.new('somehost.com', 443)
http.use_ssl = true
path = '/login.html'
resp, data = http.get(path, nil)