Support for the Ruby 2.1 series ended on March 31 2017. See here for details.
RSS has three different versions. This module contains support for version 0.9.1.
Producing our own RSS feeds is easy as well. Let's make a very basic feed:
require "rss" rss = RSS::Maker.make("0.91") do |maker| maker.channel.language = "en" maker.channel.author = "matz" maker.channel.updated = Time.now.to_s maker.channel.link = "http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/feeds/news.rss" maker.channel.title = "Example Feed" maker.channel.description = "A longer description of my feed." maker.image.url = "http://www.ruby-lang.org/images/logo.gif" maker.image.title = "An image" maker.items.new_item do |item| item.link = "http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2010/12/25/ruby-1-9-2-p136-is-released/" item.title = "Ruby 1.9.2-p136 is released" item.updated = Time.now.to_s end end puts rss
As you can see, this is a very Builder-like DSL. This code will spit out an RSS 0.9 feed with one item. If we needed a second item, we'd make another block with maker.items.new_item and build a second one.