Just enqueue a job on service create for now, since our queues are empty. Resque status will let us run the job and show the user a spinny without locking up a thin

app/controllers/users_controller.rb

@@ -13,14 +13,14 @@ class UsersController < ApplicationController
   def edit
     @aspect = :user_edit
     @user   = current_user
-    @email_prefs = Hash.new(true) 
+    @email_prefs = Hash.new(true)
     @user.user_preferences.each do |pref|
       @email_prefs[pref.email_type] = false
     end
   end
 
   def update
-    
+
     u = params[:user]
     @user = current_user
 
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ class UsersController < ApplicationController
     if @step == 3
       @requests = Request.where(:recipient_id => @person.id).includes(:sender => :profile).all
       @friends = service ? service.finder(:local => true) : {}
+      @friends ||= {}
       @friends.delete_if{|key, value| @requests.any?{ |r| r.sender_id == value[:person].id} }
     end
 

app/models/service.rb

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ class Service < ActiveRecord::Base
   belongs_to :user
   has_many :service_users
   after_create do
-    Resque.enqueue(Job::UpdateServiceUsers, self.id) if s.respond_to? :save_friends
+    Resque.enqueue(Job::UpdateServiceUsers, self.id) if self.respond_to? :save_friends
   end
 
   def public_message(post, length, url = "")

app/models/services/facebook.rb

@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 class Services::Facebook < Service
   MAX_CHARACTERS = 420
 
+  after_create do
+    Resque.enqueue(Job::UpdateServiceUsers, self.id)
+  end
+
   def provider
     "facebook"
   end
@@ -38,7 +42,7 @@ class Services::Facebook < Service
   end
 
   def save_friends
-    url = "https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?fields[]=name&fields[]=picture&access_token=#{URI.escape(self.access_token)}" 
+    url = "https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?fields[]=name&fields[]=picture&access_token=#{URI.escape(self.access_token)}"
     response = RestClient.get(url)
     data = JSON.parse(response.body)['data']
     data.each{ |p|