# Re: News headline (RSS summary) behavior **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [August 7, 2006, 1:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-news-headline-rss-summary-behavior/101686 "2006-08-07T13:12:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@ale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ale)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 1:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-news-headline-rss-summary-behavior/101686/1 "2006-08-07T13:12:22Z")
Hello, I just saw the RSS behavior made by Andrew H.: I actually did something very similar a few days ago, maybe you find it useful. It uses the FeedParser library ([http://home.gna.org/ruby-feedparser/](http://home.gna.org/ruby-feedparser/)) that seems to be able to parse more feeds than Simple-RSS. It introduces a few item-specific tags, so that you can customize the resulting output, like in this example: \ - by , I’m quite new to Ruby programming so maybe code quality and design choices are really bad. But at least it’s working (for me)… You can find it here: [http://dev.incal.net/svn/radiant/rss\_behavior/](http://dev.incal.net/svn/radiant/rss_behavior/) I’ll be glad to receive any suggestions or comments. – ale ---
**Author:** ![ale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@ale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ale)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 3:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-news-headline-rss-summary-behavior/101686/2 "2006-08-07T15:15:29Z")
Ale wrote: > I just saw the RSS behavior made by Andrew H.: I actually did > something very similar a few days ago, maybe you find it useful. I must have missed Andrew’s version. Where is it located? > Nice work! Please add it to the third-party behaviors page: [http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/wiki/ThirdPartyBehaviors](http://dev.radiantcms.org/radiant/wiki/ThirdPartyBehaviors) – John ---
**Author:** ![ale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@ale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ale)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-news-headline-rss-summary-behavior/101686/3 "2006-08-07T16:38:39Z")
John W. Long wrote: > I must have missed Andrew’s version. Where is it located? The thread seems to have been detached so I didn’t see these replies first time around - have a look here: [http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/76189](http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/76189) Ale’s lower level behavior is exactly the sort of thing I was talking about in the second part of my original message so I don’t need to go to the trouble of writing one now, since it’s already done! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@ale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ale)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 9:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-news-headline-rss-summary-behavior/101686/4 "2006-09-26T09:49:50Z")
On 26/09/06, Bryan [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi, > > How do you install this behavior in Radiant. I tried dropping the > rss\_behavior.rb into vendor/plugins directory and restarting lightty. > > Do I need to place init.rb somewhere? Instructions for creating a plugin are at: [http://radiantcms.org/blog/2006/09/14/how-to-create-global-tags-in-a-plugin/](http://radiantcms.org/blog/2006/09/14/how-to-create-global-tags-in-a-plugin/) – Regards, Dave ---
**Author:** ![ale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@ale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ale)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 9:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-news-headline-rss-summary-behavior/101686/5 "2006-09-26T09:51:52Z")
> How do you install this behavior in Radiant. I tried dropping the > rss\_behavior.rb into vendor/plugins directory and restarting lightty. you can insert directly in “app\behaviors” (if you have create a radiant application with --unpack parameter). Otherwise you have to install it as a plugin. Here you find how to create plugins:[http://radiantcms.org/blog/2006/09/14/how-to-create-global-tags-in-a-plugin/](http://radiantcms.org/blog/2006/09/14/how-to-create-global-tags-in-a-plugin/) ---
**Author:** ![ale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@ale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ale)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2006, 6:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-news-headline-rss-summary-behavior/101686/6 "2006-09-26T06:13:13Z")
Hi, How do you install this behavior in Radiant. I tried dropping the rss\_behavior.rb into vendor/plugins directory and restarting lightty. Do I need to place init.rb somewhere? Thanks, Bryan ---
**Author:** ![ale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@ale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ale)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-news-headline-rss-summary-behavior/101686/7 "2006-10-02T03:06:03Z")
Hello, I was able to install Feedparser and install the behavior. I have selected the RSS Behavior from the drop down. I have pasted the following into the page. \ - by , I received the following error message for the page. I have tried a couple different feed urls. end tag not found for start tag `’ Could some suggest an actual link so that I can test this behavior? Thanks, Bryan ---
**Author:** ![ale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@ale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ale)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2006, 7:11am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-news-headline-rss-summary-behavior/101686/8 "2006-10-03T07:11:30Z")
Thanks, that did the trick! ---
**Author:** ![ale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@ale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ale)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2006, 2:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-news-headline-rss-summary-behavior/101686/9 "2006-10-02T14:34:49Z")
Bryan wrote: > I received the following error message for the page. I have tried a > couple different feed urls. > > end tag not found for start tag `’ > > Could some suggest an actual link so that I can test this behavior? It seems to me that your markup is wrong, it should be: \ - by , – ale ---
**Author:** ![ale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@ale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ale)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2006, 3:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-news-headline-rss-summary-behavior/101686/10 "2006-10-19T03:12:29Z")
How would I go about modifying this plugin to use feed\_tools, instead of feedparser? I thought it would be as simple as changing the “require” and Class, but it wasn’t ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@ale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ale)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2006, 11:03pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-news-headline-rss-summary-behavior/101686/11 "2006-10-20T23:03:15Z")
Can someone point me in the right direction for a FeedParser gem or repository. I missed where to get it from and Google hasn’t yielded anything useful yet. BTW, I downloaded the plugin off the ThirdPartyBehaviors page and it looked like it was already properly setup as a plugin so I didn’t see why I would need to generate a plugin for it as described above. - It is however crashing my install at the moment and rake says it doesn’t know where to go to get feedparser. Loren ---
**Author:** ![ale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@ale](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ale)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 9:57am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-news-headline-rss-summary-behavior/101686/12 "2006-10-22T09:57:59Z")
[http://home.gna.org/ruby-feedparser/](http://home.gna.org/ruby-feedparser/) there appears to be a .gem here: [http://download.gna.org/ruby-feedparser/](http://download.gna.org/ruby-feedparser/) but I just installed it as a library and it’s working fine. -jamie