From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2010-06-23T19:16:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Recommended library for parsing RSS and Atom feeds

On Jun 22, 8:09 pm, Richard Conroy <richard.con...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>    I am looking to sort through the various options for processing RSS/Atom
> feeds in Ruby.
> I did some basic research, and FeedTools looks like the incumbent option,
> though many (old)
> blog posts warned that it is only minimally maintained (if at all).
> FeedZirra looks very popular,
> has been recommended here, and activity is pretty high.
>
> Does anyone have a complete list of all the library options? ( a link to a
> roundup article/blog post
> would be great)
> Does anyone have a particular favourite? Why you prefer it over other
> options?
>
> Posting links to reasonably up to date articles would be best. Google
> searches are turning up
> older articles predominantly, and thats not a good sign IMO.
>
> High on my list of features is:
> - Heroku compatibility.
> - Easy to use in a way that respects the feeds source
> - Allows me to treat RSS/Atom the same


Nokogiri, LibXML-Ruby, REXML

I've been down the road of creating a parser for these and, in my
experience, it turns out to be a YAGNI, because an XML parser works
well enough.