Working on a [rails] project, I’ve started playing around with RSS parsing. I notice that there are TONS of feed parsers out there, and different folks have their preferences. Naturally, one of the first places I looked was http://ruby-toolbox.com/categories/rss_feed_parsing.html.
Feedzirra seems to be the choice amongst most I’ve read about, but I did noticed that it looks a bit dated. I don’t necessarily have a problem with that. Heck, if he knocked it out of the park, its gone :).
To that end, I quickly found the Ruby Standard Library RSS. My first thought was “well, if its built into the library, its probably what I’m looking for…” My second thought was “where the crap is the documentation?”
So, where do I go from here? I know that often times there are no stone-set right answers for a problem, and the specifics of a problem can dictate the best answer…
What’s the currently accepted defacto RSS parsing library? If its not the build in library, why? I’d love to hear thoughts and get insight… Maybe I have grossly overlooked some information online…
P.S. I didn’t miss Ruby RSS. It just didn’t seem like enough information…
RSS is just XML. I just use Nokogiri to parse the feeds, usually. For creating RSS feeds, I simply have HAML views that render to the proper XML. No need for a super specialized RSS library.