# Rails and RSS Feeds

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-rss-feeds/186300>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 4, 2010, 3:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-rss-feeds/186300 "2010-04-04T03:03:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![ritvijp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/90ced4/32.png) [@ritvijp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ritvijp)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 3:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-and-rss-feeds/186300/1 "2010-04-04T03:03:51Z")

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Hello Everyone,

I wanted to know something about RSS Feed readers in Rails. I just  
started reading up today. Have some really basic questions. Let’s take  
the example of a multi-author blog. Blog owner is Person X. Blog posts  
are being posted by Person X, Y and Z. And I subscribe to the RSS feed  
of this blog through my rails application.

Can I:

1. Know that a particular post was posted by whom? (X / Y / Z).
2. If yes to answer 1, what all can I know? His name? Can I extract  
photo too?
3. Can I know that a particular blog is being owned by whom?
4. If yes to answer 3, what all can I know? His name? Can I extract  
photo too?
5. For a particular blogpost, can I extract the tags that the blogpost  
has been tagged?

More questions:  
6. Which is the best gem / plugin that you know to be used for a rss  
feed and parsing the feed content?

Any help would be appreciated.  
Thanks in advance.

Regards  
RP