Reading RSS feeds

Mathias_Wittlock · November 14, 2006, 12:07pm

Any gems or guides out there for reading RSS (and maybe ATOM) feeds into rails for display on a RoR site and/or storing in a database? I've only found a few for creating feeds with my content, but I want to show other's feeds on my site and I got big trouble searching for this.

Thanks in advance, Mathias.

James_Stewart · November 14, 2006, 1:17pm

Try http://rubyforge.org/projects/feedtools/

James.

Lionel_Bouton · November 14, 2006, 3:53pm

James Stewart wrote the following on 14.11.2006 14:17 :

Mathias_Wittlock · November 15, 2006, 8:53am

Thanks to both of you! I will look into these, they look quite promising. Can't believe I didn't find the feedtools, just not my day when it comes to searches I guess. Thanks!

Mathias.

Alain_Ravet · November 19, 2006, 10:08pm

Mathias,

> > Try > > http://rubyforge.org/projects/feedtools/ > > http://simple-rss.rubyforge.org/

You should also consider hpricot:

http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/

It's a more general parser, but it should do the job. I've used it in an feed aggregator, and it worked fine.

Alain