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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''m getting an interesting problem. I''d trying to generate an RSS document and then real it from outside of my app. Here''s what the view looks like. xml.instruct! :xml, :version=>"1.0" xml.rss(:version=>"2.0"){ xml.channel{ xml.title("mytitle") xml.link("http://www.myapp.com")

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 =

I''m trying to add an RSS feed to my app, and am going through the Rails Recipes chapter on doing so. I get the following error when I request the feed: undefined method `gmtime'' for #<DateTime: 1963061961/800,0,2299161> ... 7: xml.pubDate CGI.rfc1123_date(@posts.first.created_on) Any idea what''s up? Pat

I''m having trouble storing the date/time with my comments - I''m getting the MySQL error "posted_at is null". How do I setup my code to automatically store the current date/time in the ''posted_at'' column of my ''comments'' table? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Can someone tell me how to store the current date/time when someone posts a comment on my blog? I could even update the comments table after the comment is saved in the controller, but I''m not sure how to do that either. Thanks for any help... -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Can someone guide me on the process of providing an RSS feed for my site? I''m not sure how to go about this. Thanks. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello! I am trying to get specific fields from an XML document and I am totally puzzled. I hope someone can help me. # URL URL<-"http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=pubmed&id=11877539,11822933,11871444&retmode=xml&rettype=citation" # download a XML file tmp <- xmlTreeParse(URL, isURL = TRUE) tmp <- xmlRoot(tmp) Now I want to extract only

I''m having trouble redirecting back to the same page after a comment is posted. To post a comment, this is what I''m doing: #controller def comments content = Content.find(params[:id]) comment = Comment.new(params[:comment]) content.comments << comment content.save redirect_to ( :action => ''individual'', :year =>

I''m working on a RSS aggregator, and I''ve based the parser on a script from this post; http://www.superwick.com/archives/2007/06/09/rss-feed-parsing-in-ruby-on-rails/ But, being the complete newbie, I''ve found that this parser only works for specifically formatted feeds. For example, some feeds will throw a ''nil text'' error. I know that I could make

I''m trying to automatically fill a "posted_by" text by with whoever is logged into the session. How do you set the value attribute using "<%= text_field ... %>"??? I''ve tried: <%= text_field ''post'', ''posted_by'', ''value'' => User.find(session[:user_id]).name.capitalize) %> But I get

If I were to figure out how to develop an RSS feed for my blog, I should be able to test that locally right? If I go to http://mydomain.com/posts/feed/, what should I see? The XML output? 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

Does anyone know how to get going with the flickr api WITHOUT using the ''flickr.rb'' gem? I''m wanting to just use the REXML and ''net/http'' stuff. I''m just wondering how to send requests to the api and handle the response. Any tips would be great! Thanks! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I''m working on uploading my site to dreamhost. I just setup my production database, and gave it a host name. It said that it was successfully created. Now, it''s been like 25 minutes, and I still can''t connect to it. Is that normal? How can I get my tables created? Just wait it out? I''m trying to load it in the browser, and it says "server not

Dear Wolfgang, Thanks for your response. No, I haven't tried doing the complete reinstallation as you suggest. If I recall correctly, this has happened on previous occasions but like I said in my email it's not all that disruptive to my workflow. It's more like a 'first world problem'. I was encouraged to submit the query because I had correspondence with someone involved

I'm trying to declare a few date-related global variables to ease my dialplan. When I declare the following in the [globals] context of extensions.conf, I get unexpected results: YEAR = ${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},,%Y)} MONTH = ${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},,%m)} DAY = ${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},,%d)} TIMESTAMP = ${STRFTIME(${EPOCH},,%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)} If I evaluate these variables in the dialplan later, using exten

Dear colleagues, I wish to report a problem I encounter when trying to save a graphic to file. When I produce a graphic and try to save it R becomes unresponsive and I must force quit, and then restart R. The problem occurs when I try to overwrite an existing graphic: for example when I made changes to the graphic and want to save the graphic using the original file name. It only happens when I

I have an app whose admin allows users to upload PDFs to populate a "newsletter" section. I''m having trouble getting validation to work properly. I want to be sure that a name, description & file are specified in the form. The app seems to catch the error and won''t write a row to the DB but it will create a file sized 0KB in the upload folder and it

Hi, Rails 2.3.2 class TestD < ActiveRecord::Base default_scope :limit => 12 named_scope :limit, lambda { |num| { :limit => num} } end ruby script/console >> TestD.all TestD Load (0.7ms) SELECT * FROM "test_ds" LIMIT 12 => [] >> TestD.limit(14) TestD Load (0.3ms) SELECT * FROM "test_ds" LIMIT 12 => [] Any ideas why the default limit