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word_of_the_day.rb
require 'rss/1.0'
require 'rss/2.0'
require 'open-uri'
require 'cgi'
source = "http://feeds.urbandictionary.com/UrbanWordOfTheDay"
content = ""
open(source) do |s| content = s.read end
rss = RSS::Parser.parse(content, false)
# Grab the title and description, striping out html tags
word = rss.items[0].title;
definition = CGI.unescapeHTML(rss.items[0].description).gsub(/<\/?[^>]*>/, "")
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Very good!

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