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Hi I''m trying to setup my app to use Feedtools amazing RSS powers, but it fails miserably on the following line: logger.debug("Description:#{FeedTools::Feed.open("http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot").items.first.description}") The stack trace says: wrong number of arguments (0 for 1)

I have met a problem on Feedtools and felt very confused about it: The feed that I generated using feedtools can not be read correctedly by feedtools,while rss from other websites can be read. Still,the code for rss generating: def userrss @user = User.find_by_id(params[:id]) @articles = @user.articles(:all,:order => ''updated_at desc'',:limit => 15)

I performed a gem install feedtools, I then added these 2 lines to my environment.rb: require ''rubygems'' require ''feed_tools'' I then added this method in my controller: def rss @post = Post.most_recent feed = FeedTools::Feed.new feed.title = ''Recent Rambles'' feed.subtitle = ''random thoughts by me''

As http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/65495 has shown,I have drawn into trouble about my thread debugging for some days,and need help to solve it urgently! This thread problem comes from the design requirements that my web application will get the rss feeds read which are generated by the web application itself. http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/63984 has shown my code,and the key code is the

I know that I''m doing something wrong, but I can''t figure out what. I''ve looked at every wiki and tutorial I can find on feedtools but I still can''t get my rss feed working. Here''s my code. feed = FeedTools::Feed.new feed.entries << FeedTools::FeedItem.new feed.entries[0].author.name = "Charlie Bowman" feed.entries[0].title =

Is it possible to paginate rss feeds with FeedTools. The following code generates an error about constants. latest_feeds = FeedTools::Feed.open(''http://feeds.feedburner.com/Eribium'') @news_pages, @pages = paginate :latest_feeds, :per_page => 5 -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

http://www.mozdex.com/open.jsp?query=webhosting&start=10 in the above feed, can anyone tell me how to access the openSearch:totalResults element using feed tools? I can access the other elements, but I''m unsure what special meaning the colon carries or how to work with such items in feedtools thanks in advance al

Hi all, Is anyone else seeing silly amounts of segfaults with Feedtools? They''re regular enough to make it unusable, but I haven''t pinned down what''s triggering them yet. Here''s the error: > deadlock 0xb75970a8: run:-/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:42: [BUG] Segmentation fault > ruby 1.8.3 (2005-06-23) [i486-linux] Naturally, that knocks over WEBrick,

I''m having an odd problem. I''m trying to create an RSS feed (working off the Recipe), but "xml.link" generates error about "Can''t convert Hash to String". From the error trace, it *looks* like it''s calling the a fileutil ''link'' method (as in, filesystem symbolic link) - even xml.tag! generates this error. Er, how do I make

Hi, I need to parse the rss feed and use the pubDate field to generate a field in a xml file to use as an input to simile timeline. RSS returns the pubDate as : Sun Feb 24 06:33:32 UTC 2008 But I need it as a string : "Feb 24 2008 06:33:32 PST" When I do : ... @dt=feed_item.time @dt=@dt.to_date word_date=''%b %d %Y %H:%M:%S %z'' puts @dt.strftime(word_date) ...

I am a new learner of Ruby on Rails. I followed through the railstutorial.org tutorial and I''m trying to learn off the sample demo app where you can to make microposts and only the people who are "following" you can see them. If I wanted to make it so every user can see microposts as an additional functionality, what are the steps to do that? -- Posted via

Hi, I was wondering if there''s an RSS reader plugin of some sort available that will basically get the RSS feeds for me and then allow my Rails application to take those feeds and present them on my website. Would anybody know how I could get this to work with a rails app? Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

FeedUpdater has stopped working now that I have upgrade to Rails 1.2.2 When I run script/feed_updater start I get: /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:196:in `activate'': can''t activate activesupport (= 1.3.1), already activated activesupport-1.4.1] (Gem::Exception) from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:214:in `activate'' from

Hi, all I am new to Ruby and also Ruby on Rails. I would like to know how we can get the RSS Feeds and display them in a Ruby on Rails applications. Thanks in Advance, sumi -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi I am trying to use the RSS classes from "rss/2.0" and everything works but I want to know what attributes and properties I can get at from each of the classes I am getting back. For example, the class has a "channel" which I can tell has a "title" attribute (because it works when I query it :) but I would really like a list of every attribute that is

Hi all, I want my users to be able to view RSS feeds of their choice on my site. But i''d like to be able to check the files they are submitting as feeds are actually XML before attempting to parse and display them. I''ve been using feed tools to display the contents of feeds which works perfectly, but i''d like some way to check if a file is a feed/xml. Any pointers in

I am doing some testing with the rails trunk, version I switched to because of memory leaks in 0.13.1 under linux environment. Right now the application is running fast and steady under linux, with no memory leaks using SCGI Rails Runner 0.4.3 from Zed, BUT it has become unusable under Windows (our main development environment) where I am getting a lot of segmentation faults. BUT the problem

The index page of my rails app grabs an rss feed from a neighboring news site. Unfortunately, the process of grabbing that feed seems to be slowing down the initial load time of my site to the point where it takes about 10-12 seconds to respond and render. I''d like to speed that up somehow (for 8-10 seconds it looks like my server is not responding at all..) Any suggestions? I

Hello all, I have the following problem: *) I have a WordPress blog at site x *) I have a Ruby on Rails site, y *) I want to accomplish the following thing: If i post a blog entry into my wordpress blog at x, (in category z), i want it to appear automaticaly at y (in a blog which is... let''s say just a Ruby on Rails something, or alternatively Typo or maybe WP) Suggestions to tackle

Hi all, please pardon my question if it seems silly.. I''m trying pretty hard to learn though. :) I have 2 tables: feeds (has_many feed_items) feed_items (belongs_to feed) Let''s say Feeds has 3 feed.names: "Things that Start with A", "Things that start with B", "Things that start with C". I want to print out, on one page, something like the