Feed summarizer

feedsummary.rb

# All code in this gist is public domain and freely available for use and alteration without attribution

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

feed = 'http://www.tweetlinkmonster.com/feed/jraines.atom'

rss = SimpleRSS.parse(open(feed))


content = []

10.times do |i|
   item = rss.items[i] 
   content <<  { :link =>"<a href='#{item.link}'>#{item.title}</a>",
				 :date => "Published on: #{item.updated || item.pubDate}",  # atom || rss
				 :description => "#{item.summary || item.description}", 
				 :author => "#{item.author || "Link"}" }
end

destination = "output.xml"
new_feed = RSS::Maker.make("2.0") do |feed|
   feed.channel.title = "Twitter links via TLM"
   feed.channel.link = "http://jeremyraines.com"
   feed.channel.description = "Links from Twits"
   output = ""
   content.each do |item|
     output = output + "#{item[:author]}: #{item[:link]}<br /> \n\n #{item[:description]} \n\n<br /> #{item[:date]} \n\n <br /><br />"
   end
   item = feed.items.new_item
   item.title = "Last 10 Feed Items"
   item.date = Time.now
   item.description = output
end