RubyRSS Eating feeds tastefully

Elegant as Ruby RSS parser and generator intended to help you bring together Ruby and RSS in your project. Features include creation of custom (x)HTML news blocks from remote RSS feeds, generation of RSS feeds using templates, and more.

RubyRSS depends on SimpleRSS library. To install it you can use following command:

gem install simple-rss --remote

HOW TO PARSE RSS-FEED

require "rubyrss"

rss = RubyRSS.new "http://www.games-mix.com/rss-feed.xml" rss.parse

HOW TO GENERATE RSS-FEED

require "rubyrss"

rss = RubyRSS.new "rss-feed.xml" rss.title = "Sample RSS-feed" rss.link = "http://www.rubyrss.com" rss.desc = "Sample RSS-feed generated by RubyRSS" rss.date = Time.now.gmtime 1.upto(10) { |i| rss.items << RubyRSS::Item.new( "title-" + i.to_s, "#" + String(i), "description-#{i}", Time.now.gmtime ) } rss.generate "rss2.0"

CHANGES v1.1 Jun 10

• return string with content instead of direct printing when invoking #parse and #generate
• checking for presence of feed description
• added requirement of simple-rss to README

v1.0 Jun 09

• initial release

Copyright (c) 2006 Sergey Tikhonov [email protected] Distributed under MIT License