Class: Rss

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/rss_gem.rb

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.runcheck(feed_link) ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/rss_gem.rb', line 2

def self.runcheck(feed_link)
  #Imports

  require "rss"
  require "open-uri"

  #Establish array for news list

  rss_list = []
  
  #Gets the RSS link passed in through the controller via the "feed_link" and parses the RSS data

  rss = RSS::Parser.parse(open(feed_link).read, false).items

  #For each item in the RSS data it saves the title, page link, publish data of that item into an object, it gets the source name from the controller via the "source_name"

  #Each object is then added the the rss_list array of objects.

  #Once it has gones through each item in the feed, it will return the array

  rss.each do |item|
      item = {title: item.title, link: item.link, pubdate: item.pubDate}
      rss_list.push(item)

    end 
    return rss_list
end