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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''

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, 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, 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/.

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

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

I use feedtools to generate the feeds and read them,and now they can not work well: This is the code for feed generating: class FeedsController < ApplicationController def userrss @user = User.find_by_id(params[:id]) @articles = @user.articles(:all,:order => ''updated_at desc'') @headers["Content-Type"] = "application/xml; charset=utf-8"

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

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

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/.

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 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

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,

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

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 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

I am running into problems with MySQL and lookups. The table has character set utf8, but: mysql> select id, token from tokens where token = ''esta''; +-------+-------+ | id | token | +-------+-------+ | 83417 | está | +-------+-------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) How do I configure things so MySQL doesn''t ignore accents? TIA, Jeffrey