Comments on: Extending Ruby’s RSS Parser

By: Ardekantur / “TDD”.reverse

Ardekantur / “TDD”.reverse — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:29:48 +0000

[...] no doubt remember my fabulous, in-development command-line NewsGator client, bulletin. I’ve extracted the NewsGator-specific code to a gem called WonderCroc. The README provides a [...]

By: Ardekantur

Ardekantur — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:36:36 +0000

Calum -

I have absolutely no idea whether or not removing the namespace from that call continues to allow this method to work. In other words, try it and see!

Also, great gravatar! :-)

By: Calum Leslie

Calum Leslie — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:51:35 +0000

Do you really need to include the namespace in the install_text_element call? I’ve not used the library in particular but that’s pretty bad “XML” practice in general; the identifier used for the namespace can change arbitrarily and still have the same semantics.

I realise it won’t, but it’s probably something to watch out for. :)

By: engtech

engtech — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:46:47 +0000

I find the Ruby RSS parser a little crazy to work with if your using multiple feeds from different sources. I ended up moving towards Feed Normalizer: http://feed-normalizer.rubyforge.org/

By: Ardekantur

Ardekantur — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:26:06 +0000

No particular reason :-) Sometimes when I don’t trust the code I’m writing I expand all the little shortcuts to make sure the problem isn’t something trivial.

By: coderrr

coderrr — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:40:43 +0000

Awesome, I was looking for something like this recently…

One question though… why do module RSS; class Rss; class Channel; class Item … end;end;end;end versus class RSS::Rss::Channel::Item … end ?