# Doing RSS, storing RSS

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/doing-rss-storing-rss/9249>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [February 24, 2007, 6:48am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/doing-rss-storing-rss/9249 "2007-02-24T06:48:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![DigitalWarfare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3e96dc/32.png) [@DigitalWarfare](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/DigitalWarfare)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 6:48am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/doing-rss-storing-rss/9249/1 "2007-02-24T06:48:04Z")

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Does ruby on rails make it simple to grab a feed and then serialize it into the database and the unserialize it from the database and allow you to handle it as an object?

I know PHP can do this but can ruby do this? Do I need to make my own RSS parser or does ruby have something?

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**Author:** ![DigitalWarfare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3e96dc/32.png) [@DigitalWarfare](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/DigitalWarfare)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2007, 9:33am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/doing-rss-storing-rss/9249/2 "2007-02-24T09:33:09Z")

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Thank you for the reply, I actually had a discussion of the creator of that prior to this post.

I resolved this issue by using a combination of a PHP script to do this and to allow ruby to do the rest. This seems to be the most efficient task.