Ruby Simple RSS Reader

Today I had to use some Ruby code to create an RSS Reader to import our Typepad blog into our Rails Template.
Check it out below. It’s crazy simple:

<%
require 'rubygems'
require 'simple-rss'
require 'open-uri'
rss = SimpleRSS.parse open('http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/15248843.rss')
%>
 
<% rss.items.each do |i| %>
   <h3><%= i.title %></a></h3>
   <p><%= i.summary %></p>
   <a href="<%= i.link %>" target="_blank">Link to Post »</a>
<% end %>

Let me know if you’ve ran across any you like better.

Tags: blog, rails, rss reader, ruby, simple rss, twitter