# Roll your own blog roll

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/roll-your-own-blog-roll/91721>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 11, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/roll-your-own-blog-roll/91721 "2007-04-11T21:50:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![blinking\_bear](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@blinking\_bear](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blinking_bear)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 9:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/roll-your-own-blog-roll/91721/1 "2007-04-11T21:50:41Z")

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I’m going to be implementing a blog roll type feature for a project.  
Something similar to [originalsignal.com](http://originalsignal.com) that has a bunch of rss feeds  
and  
displays the most recent posts. Anyone have any recommendations for  
implementing this? Obviously pulling the straight RSS feeds would be  
easy,  
but I want to do some kind of caching so I’m not parsing the feeds every  
load. any ideas?

thanks

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**Author:** ![blinking\_bear](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@blinking\_bear](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blinking_bear)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2007, 10:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/roll-your-own-blog-roll/91721/2 "2007-04-11T22:02:42Z")

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On 4/11/07, blinking bear [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I’m going to be implementing a blog roll type feature for a project.  
> Something similar to [originalsignal.com](http://originalsignal.com) that has a bunch of rss feeds and  
> displays the most recent posts. Anyone have any recommendations for  
> implementing this? Obviously pulling the straight RSS feeds would be easy,  
> but I want to do some kind of caching so I’m not parsing the feeds every  
> load. any ideas?

Write it to a local cache file?

–  
Greg D.  
[http://destiney.com/](http://destiney.com/)