Reading RSS feeds

Mathias_W · November 14, 2006, 1:10pm

Any gems or guides out there for reading RSS (and maybe ATOM) feeds
into rails for display on a RoR site and/or storing in a database?
I’ve only found a few for creating feeds with my content, but I want
to show other’s feeds on my site and I got big trouble searching for
this.

Thanks in advance,
Mathias.

Mathias_W · November 14, 2006, 3:12pm

On Nov 14, 2006, at 7:07 AM, Mathias W. wrote:

Any gems or guides out there for reading RSS (and maybe ATOM) feeds
into rails for display on a RoR site and/or storing in a database?
I’ve only found a few for creating feeds with my content, but I want
to show other’s feeds on my site and I got big trouble searching for
this.

Try http://rubyforge.org/projects/feedtools/

James.

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Mathias_W · November 14, 2006, 4:54pm

James S. wrote the following on 14.11.2006 14:17 :

James.

simple-rss isn’t as easy to use, but is more permissive. I’ve far less
RSS feeds rejected by simple-rss than feedtools.

See http://simple-rss.rubyforge.org/

Lionel.

Mathias_W · November 15, 2006, 10:05am

On 11/14/06, Lionel B. [email protected] wrote:

James S. wrote the following on 14.11.2006 14:17 :

Try http://rubyforge.org/projects/feedtools/

See http://simple-rss.rubyforge.org/

Thanks to both of you! I will look into these, they look quite
promising. Can’t believe I didn’t find the feedtools, just not my day
when it comes to searches I guess. Thanks!

Mathias.

Mathias_W · November 20, 2006, 2:45pm

Mathias,

Try
http://rubyforge.org/projects/feedtools/
http://simple-rss.rubyforge.org/

You should also consider hpricot:

http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/

It’s a more general parser, but it should do the job. I’ve used it in
an feed aggregator, and it worked fine.

Alain