is there a to_rss for respond_to blocks in 1.2

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Ruby has rss functionality built in. See: http://www.rubyrss.com/

you can do something like this:

in YourController: def index     respond_to do |format|       format.rss { render :xml => YourModel.to_rss }     end end

in YourModel:

def self.to_rss()     rss = RSS::Rss.new( "2.0" )     channel = RSS::Rss::Channel.new     channel.title = "Your Title     channel.description = "Your Description."     channel.link = "http://www.yoururl.whatever"     rss.channel = channel

    selected_items = self.find( :all, :order => "created_on DESC", :limit => 15)     selected_items.each do |selected|       item = RSS::Rss::Channel::Item.new       item.title = selected.headline       item.description = selected.body       item.link = "some sort of link to the item"       item.pubDate = selected.created_on       channel.items << item     end

    return rss.to_s   end

in your environment.rb: require 'rss/2.0'

- Brian