read rss content used ruby

rss_test.rb

# encoding: utf-8

require 'rss'
require 'open-uri'

# url or local file
source = "http://snippets.aktagon.com/main.rss"

# and ths src when if url is https 
require 'openssl'
OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

# raw content of rss feed
content = ""
open(source) do |s| content = s.read end

rss = RSS::Parser.parse(content, false)
puts rss.channel.items