# Parsing feeds...slow

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/parsing-feeds-slow/92855>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 25, 2007, 2:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/parsing-feeds-slow/92855 "2007-04-25T02:40:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 2:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/parsing-feeds-slow/92855/1 "2007-04-25T02:40:22Z")

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I need to parse about 50 RSS feeds and display the latest posts from  
each  
sorted by post date. Right now I have a cron job calling a rake task  
saving  
the feeds locally every 5 minutes then I’m using simple-rss to do the  
parsing. Even though the posts are local its still very slow to parse  
and  
display all of them. Anyone have any other recommend approaches  
(caching,  
etc) that might improve this? I’d say an ideal refresh time would be  
about  
5 minutes

Thanks!