Check if there is a travel alert warning for this location #hackdisrupt

travel_alert.rb

require 'open-uri'
require 'rss/1.0'  
require 'rss/2.0' 
require 'activesupport'

def has_travel_alert(location)

source = "http://travel.state.gov/_res/rss/TWs.xml"

content = "" # raw content of rss feed will be loaded here 
open(source) do |s| content = s.read end               
rss = RSS::Parser.parse(content, false) 

count = 0

x = 0
problem_regions = []

until count == rss.items.size
  if rss.items[count].description.index(location.titlecase) != nil 
     region = { :title =>  rss.items[count].title , :pubdate => rss.items[count].pubDate, :link => rss.items[count].link}   
     problem_regions[x] =  region
     x = x + 1
  end
 count = count + 1
end

return problem_regions
end
 
puts has_travel_alert('iraq').inspect