FeedMe!

A better (for me) RSS/Atom aggregator.

Author: Daniel Lindsley <daniel@toastdriven.com>

License: MIT

Last Updated: 2008/03/30

Version: 0.2

Requirements

• A decent version of Ruby.
• Rails 2.0+
• Hpricot
• open-uri
• Balls of steel and an iron will.

Installing

1. Grab the code.
2. Copy the ‘config/database.yml.dist’ to ‘config/database.yml’. Reconfigure as necessary.
3. Copy the ‘config/initializers/feedme.rb.dist’ to ‘config/initializers/feedme.rb’.
   1. Due to my cough wonderfully advanced and secure login setup, add users to the ‘VALID_USERS’ hash in ‘config/initializers/feedme.rb’.
4. Fire up the server.
5. Go to ‘http://example.com/login’ and enter your details.
6. Add RSS feeds to the admin.
7. Run (preferably via cron) ‘rake feedme:pull_feeds’.
8. Hit up ‘http://example.com/’ and enjoy.