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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''

I''m busy trying to bang out a new version of the website for my fantasy baseball league (www.ibl.org) and I''m torn as to what to do. I''m a PHP coder by day (Zend Certified and everything) but like Rails too. Now, the site is morphing into a "blog plus tools for league members" site. A lot of those tools are already written in PHP and I don''t want

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 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 =

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 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/.

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

I have a RailsConf ticket available and am looking to sell it, as I won''t be able to make it out to Chicago as something has come up. Please email me off-list at nshb@inimit.com

I am wondering if it would be possible (and safe) to develop online banking or other security-related applications with Ruby on Rails, instead of using J2EE frameworks or .NET? Are there any particular implications needed to write e-banking apps with Rails? Security problems? So... is anyone developing these types of applications with RoR? Any advantage or disadvantage? Personal experiences are

I just noticed something interesting (or not) about getting to my RoR app on the 2 browsers. I''ve tested it running Webrick or Mongrel_rails and get the same behavior. The app is at http://www.mydomain.com:myport#/app/list Specifying that complete URL works fine in both browsers. However in IE if you just specify www.mydomain.com:myport#/app/list I get page not found. In FF the URL

...I''m on Ubuntu Breezy - it''s not so far otherwise been a problem. The only parts of the FeedTools API I''m using are FeedTools::Feed.open() and FeedTools::Feed#title. I''ve got feedtools 0.2.23 installed, and the database is sqlite3. Rails is 1.0. Any ideas? sporkmonger.com seems to be down at the moment, so I can''t look there, but Google didn''t throw up anything relevant... -- Alex

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

Well i want to make a photography community site on the lines of www.gfxartist.com , www.terminus1525.ca, www.phirebrush.com Where the community votes for every subbmission from a artist and can comment (like a forum).. Now gfxartist has used probably SMARTY,php,and their own CMS. terminus used Drupal,Gallery 2.Some one tells me that this combo is heavy on resources and slows down sites.

Well I finally broke down and got me one of those Intel iMacs and a copy of Textmate. It took me a bit to get use to Textmate but once I learned some of the shortcuts I was cruising. Mac OS X took very little time to get used to as I already had a decent *nix background. Up until this point I had been primarily on Windows. Some of the productivity highlights I''ve found: 1. My CPU

So, I''m working on a search engine of sorts that restricts results to your local area. I can successfully return all entries within 15 miles of a particular point, and I can successfully return all entries that match a search query, but I''m having trouble combining the two together and doing pagination on them. Basically, for the range query, you do a SQL query that returns all