# Rfeedparser 0.9.93

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rfeedparser-0-9-93/110022>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 21, 2007, 11:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rfeedparser-0-9-93/110022 "2007-07-21T11:58:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![jhagemeier](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@jhagemeier](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jhagemeier)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 11:58am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rfeedparser-0-9-93/110022/1 "2007-07-21T11:58:12Z")

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rFeedParser is a translation of Mark Pilgrim’s Universal Feed Parser  
[http://feedparser.org](http://feedparser.org) from Python to Ruby. It has nearly the exact  
same  
behavior. It’s functionality documentation[1] applies to this work.

Currently, on a Ubuntu GNU/Linux box, it passes 98.8% of the over 3000  
unit tests originally created for Mark’s feedparser. On a Mac box with  
ruby  
1.8.6, this drops down to 97.7%.

It is a bit of mess to get installed. The gems take care of most  
everything, but you will need Yoshida Masotos Ruby bindings to the Expat  
library[2], and, of course, the Expat XML parser[3].

More information can be found at the rubyforge site:  
[http://rfeedparser.rubyforge.org](http://rfeedparser.rubyforge.org).

I’d like to thank Sam Ruby for his idea of pirate testing[4]. I’ve  
extended it beyond the bare bones implementation he gave there and  
without  
that inspiration, I would not have down this at all.

Anyone who wishes to help code this is asked to look in at  
rfeedparsertest.rb and at how the test files themselve are written in  
wellformed/, illformed/ and their subdirectories. (For the really smart  
of  
you, yes, rfeedparserserver.rb needs to be folded into  
rfeedparsertest.rb.  
Would you like to do it?). Also, bzr branches can be found on my  
site[5].

To anyone who has been monitoring this project on rubyforge or saw the  
earlier malformed announcement, sorry for the spam tonight. My sleep  
deprivation kicked in and caused some problems.

–  
Jeff

[1] [http://feedparser.org/doc](http://feedparser.org/doc)  
[2] [http://www.yoshidam.net/Ruby.html#xmlparser](http://www.yoshidam.net/Ruby.html#xmlparser) Be sure to patch line  
171  
in saxdriver.rb by placing “return” in front of stream. I’ve made a gem  
for  
xmlparser, but have not yet made it work on Mac OS X. You can grab it  
from  
[http://rubyforge.org/projects/xmlparser](http://rubyforge.org/projects/xmlparser)  
[3] [http://expat.sourceforge.net/](http://expat.sourceforge.net/) This is available in macports as  
well  
as in Ubuntu/Debian and the other assorted Linuxes. Be sure to get the  
dev  
versions.  
[4]  
[Testing FeedTools Dynamically](http://intertwingly.net/blog/2005/10/30/Testing-FeedTools-Dynamically)  
[5] [http://somethingsimilar.com/code/bzr/rfeedparser](http://somethingsimilar.com/code/bzr/rfeedparser)

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**Author:** ![jhagemeier](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@jhagemeier](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jhagemeier)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 4:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rfeedparser-0-9-93/110022/2 "2007-07-21T16:54:11Z")

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Jeff H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes:

> rFeedParser is a translation of Mark Pilgrim’s Universal Feed Parser  
> [http://feedparser.org](http://feedparser.org) from Python to Ruby. It has nearly the exact same  
> behavior. It’s functionality documentation[1] applies to this work.
> 
> Currently, on a Ubuntu GNU/Linux box, it passes 98.8% of the over 3000  
> unit tests originally created for Mark’s feedparser. On a Mac box with ruby  
> 1.8.6, this drops down to 97.7%.

Great effort, thanks a lot.