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.