RSS Feed parsing problem

I want to parse multiple feeds but i have ran into problems

Im doing a query on a table which returns rss feed urls stored in an
instance variable called @urls .

with each of these eed urls i want to parse them like below

@feeds = SimpleRSS.parse open(@urls.feed_url)

however this only works when doing a query for first or last and not
find:all. eg: just 1 feed url

undefined method `feed_url’ for #Array:0x7f97c3f4faf8

any suggestions on what the problem is? ive tried the approach of trying
to put this into a loop but had no luck and are struggling to find a
solution

Regards

nick

On 12 Apr., 18:59, Nick H. [email protected]
wrote:

find:all. eg: just 1 feed url

undefined method `feed_url’ for #Array:0x7f97c3f4faf8

any suggestions on what the problem is? ive tried the approach of trying
to put this into a loop but had no luck and are struggling to find a
solution

To me the problem is pretty obvious. You are trying to call an
undefined method ‘feed_url’ on an Array. To make this work you should
call the method on each of the items in the Array individually. Like
this:

@feeds = []
@urls.each do |url|
@feeds << SimpleRSS.parse open(url.feed_url)
end

You need to know, that whenever you’re asking ActiveRecord for
multiple records in the database, they will always come back as an
Array with each item representing a record or model. But when you’re
asking for just a single record (Model.find(:first) or Model.find
(:last)) you simply get the record/model back.


Best regards,
David K.
http://twitter.com/rubyguy

hi thanks for the reply, was much needed.

I knew what i was trying to do which was like you say call each of the
items in the array i just wasnt sure how to do it, and attempted a
similar type of loop but had no luck.

I will look into this and see if i can achieve what i want

Thanks alot

nick

Nick H. wrote:

hi thanks for the reply, was much needed.

I knew what i was trying to do which was like you say call each of the
items in the array i just wasnt sure how to do it, and attempted a
similar type of loop but had no luck.

I will look into this and see if i can achieve what i want

Thanks alot

nick

just another quick question

how would i able to output each parsed feed from the array @feeds[] in a
view?

On 12 Apr., 22:02, Nick H. [email protected]
wrote:

nick

just another quick question

how would i able to output each parsed feed from the array @feeds[] in a
view?

You would do something like this:

    <%- @feeds.each do |feed| -%>
  • <%= feed.channel.title %>
  • <%- end -%>

Voila, a list of feed titles. :slight_smile:


Best regards,
David K.
http://twitter.com/rubyguy