Skin of Stars

Machines, Media and Miscellanea

by Kevin Carmody

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Ruby On Rails, RSS and Atom feed parsing with Feed Normalizer and subsequent storage

I’ve battled for days on this, but I now finally know how to parse feeds and store them in a database in Ruby On Rails. This won’t be of much interest to the casual reader, but if you are scouring the web for an answer (as I was) then you will probably find this very useful: class Feed < ActiveRecord::Base … Read the remaining 81 words

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