gistfile1.rb

#!/usr/bin/ruby
#
# tvrss - a BitTorrent torrent-RSS puller
#
# Make a directory called ~/.tvrss
# Make another called ~/.tvrss/torrents
# Put URLs of RSS feeds in ~/.tvrss/feeds
# Bob's your uncle!

require 'rubygems'
require 'simple-rss'
require 'open-uri'

urls = []

File.open(ENV["HOME"]+"/.tvrss/feeds").each_line do |line|
    next if line =~ /^#/ or line =~ /^\s*$/

    urls.unshift(line.chomp)
end

Dir.chdir(ENV["HOME"]+"/.tvrss/torrents")

urls.each do |url|
    rss = SimpleRSS.parse open(url).read

    rss.entries.each do |entry|
        next if File.exists? entry.title+".torrent"
        File.open(entry.title+".torrent","w") do |fh|
            fh.write open(entry.link).read
        end
    end
end