# Feedburner updating the feed even when it should not

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feedburner-updating-the-feed-even-when-it-should-not/113413>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 30, 2007, 9:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feedburner-updating-the-feed-even-when-it-should-not/113413 "2007-08-30T21:53:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![dorelal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@dorelal](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dorelal)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2007, 9:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/feedburner-updating-the-feed-even-when-it-should-not/113413/1 "2007-08-30T21:53:50Z")

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I am using feedburner to publish my feed.

I have a table called ‘Event’ which has created\_on and updated\_on  
columns  
besides other attributes. Some of the attributes are disclosed through  
RSS.

Once the event is created, RSS feed can pick up those events.

However after a while I update a column which is not disclosed on the  
feed.  
In the process the column updated\_on also gets update. Once again I  
update a  
column that is not disclosed on the rss feed and is not used to  
determine  
which events to be shown.

Feedburner somehows picks up the information that I have updated the  
feed  
and re delivers it even though I don’t want it to redeliver since the  
content has not changed.

Any one has encountered this kind of issue before.

Given below is xml feed file that I use.

xml.instruct! :xnl, :version =\> “1.0”, :encoding =\> ‘UTF-8’  
xml.rss “version” =\> “2.0”, “xmlns:dc” =\>  
“[DCMI: DCMI Metadata Terms](http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/)”  
do  
xml.channel do  
xml.title “#{@city.name} Events - [EventsInIndia.com](http://EventsInIndia.com)”  
xml.link url\_for( :only\_path =\> false,:controller =\>  
‘ievents’,:action  
=\> ‘list’, :type =\> ‘up’, :cid =\> @city.id)  
xml.description “List of events in #{@city.name}”  
xml.pubDate CGI.rfc1123\_date(@events.first.created\_on) if  
@events.any?

```
xml.image do
  xml.url "http://www.eventsinindia.com/images/eii_logo3.png"
  xml.link "http://eventsinindia.com/"
  xml.title "EventsInIndia.com"
end

xml.language "en-us"
xml.copyright "Copyright 2006-2007 www.EventsInIndia.com"
xml.docs "http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss"

@events.each do |event|
  xml.item do
    xml.title event.name
    xml.link eventid_url(event.id)
    xml.description event_desc_for_feed(event)

    xml.comments eventid_url(event.id)

    xml.pubDate CGI.rfc1123_date(event.created_on)
    xml.author "removed_email_address@domain.invalid (#{event.user.name})"
    xml.guid eventid_url(event.id)
  end

end

```

end  
end