RSS parser

rss_helper.rb

module RssHelper
  def rss_links
    body = HTTParty.get('http://blog.slimsurveys.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss')
    
    items = []
    
    begin
      Nokogiri::XML(body).xpath('//item').slice(0, 5).each do |item|
        items << content_tag(:a, item.xpath('title').inner_text, href: item.xpath('link').inner_text.to_s )
      end
      
      items.collect {|item| content_tag(:li, item)}.join().html_safe
    rescue
    end
  end
end