Comments on: Agile RSS Aggregator in Ruby

By: Ilya Grigorik

Ilya Grigorik — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:16:04 +0000

Patrick, to ruby from php is a good place to start. There is also a good selection of books an Amazon that can help you with the transition. My pick: Ruby for Rails.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:28:59 +0000

So, I wrote an RSS aggregator in PHP to give me random RSS feeds for specific topics (http://uptodate.pcdesigns.net/). It’s really basic and very convenient, but I want to try my hand at Ruby. How’s the PHP to Ruby transition? Is it easy to connect to feeds with ruby? Ruby definitely looks cleaner than PHP. Does anybody have a preference?

By: Inductio Ex Machina - Feed Bag: A Simple RSS Archiver

Inductio Ex Machina - Feed Bag: A Simple RSS Archiver — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:33:24 +0000

[...] seen how easy it is to create an RSS aggregator in ruby, I figured it should be just as easy to collect feeds in the same way and write them to a database [...]

By: links for 2007-12-30 « J.Uma Shankar Ladha

links for 2007-12-30 « J.Uma Shankar Ladha — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 02:19:07 +0000

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By: hugoking

hugoking — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:01:10 +0000

Ilya, yeah I’ve been in contact with the guys at hpricot and it looks like a problem with hpricot on Mac, they don’t seem to have a solution for it.
Thanks for your help though, i’m going to try and knock something up on another system.

By: Ilya Grigorik

Ilya Grigorik — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:03:48 +0000

Hugo, do you have rubygems installed on your system? Check this guide, and then do ‘gem install hpricot’. If either is missing, that should fix it! Having said that, feel free to ping me (contact form) with your exact error message if that doesn’t work.

By: hugo

hugo — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:38:47 +0000

Absolutely awesome script, an excellent example of the versatility of ruby and good programming practices hand-in-hand.
I am having one problem using this however, either using rubygems or source i get a problem with hpricot_scan. A load error with rubygems, and a bad path with source. Any ideas about this? I’m developing on a Mac btw.

By: a work on process » links for 2007-11-29

a work on process » links for 2007-11-29 — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:20:23 +0000

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By: Ilya Grigorik

Ilya Grigorik — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:18:32 +0000

Deevo, try adding require ‘rubygems’ at the top of your file. Also, open-uri is part of Ruby core, you shouldn’t have to install it!

By: deevo

deevo — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:20:04 +0000

ilya, I am also getting the “no such file to load — feed-normalizer”
after having successfully installed feed-normalizer:

“Successfully installed feed-normalizer-1.4.0
Installing ri documentation for feed-normalizer-1.4.0…
Installing RDoc documentation for feed-normalizer-1.4.0…”

I am running this in instant-rails, in windows. any idea why?

also, “gem install open-uri” does not seem to work since it cannot find the repository…any help greatly appreciated!