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application_helper.rb
require 'rss/1.0'
require 'rss/2.0'
require 'open-uri'
require 'socket'
module ApplicationHelper
def render_rss_feed(url)
content = ""
open(url, 0) do |s| content = s.read end
feed = RSS::Parser.parse(content, false)
@link = feed.channel.link
@title = feed.channel.title
@items = feed.channel.items[0..4] # just use the first five items
render :partial => 'home/rss_view'
end
end
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