There are a few rss aggregators which I like:
http://www.trawlr.com/ http://www.gnome.org/projects/straw/ http://feed-on-feeds.googlecode.com/
However, none of them quite match my needs. Trawlr is nice, but I want the data in my own db so that I can work with the data if I like.
The straw project is nice, but they're not using rails conventions.
Finally, feed-on-feeds is closest to what I want in that it aggregates feeds using standard LAMP (in this case, PHP). However, I like rails, so basically would like to clone/redo feed-on-feeds using rails.
So, I started:
http://code.google.com/p/rfeeds/
Having a better grasp of how to use the relationships thanks largely to this list, I feel more capable of tackling something like this.
However, the primary concern is how to populate the database. I don't mean putting some data into the migrations, or even loading data with SQL, but grabbing feed data from the internet.
How would I use something like:
http://www.igvita.com/2007/03/22/agile-rss-aggregator-in-ruby/
to grab feeds?
thanks,
Thufir
