#87 Generating RSS Feeds

Jan 06, 2008 | 6 minutes | Views, Routing

See how to easily generate and link to an RSS feed using new features in Rails 2.0. Watch this episode or details.

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* atom_feed_helper

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          index.rss.builder
        
xml.instruct! :xml, :version => "1.0" 
xml.rss :version => "2.0" do
  xml.channel do
    xml.title "Articles"
    xml.description "Lots of articles"
    xml.link formatted_articles_url(:rss)
    
    for article in @articles
      xml.item do
        xml.title article.name
        xml.description article.content
        xml.pubDate article.created_at.to_s(:rfc822)
        xml.link formatted_article_url(article, :rss)
        xml.guid formatted_article_url(article, :rss)
      end
    end
  end
end

          index.html.erb
        
<%= link_to "RSS Feed", formatted_articles_url(:rss) %>

          bash
        
$ rake routes