better in ruby

require 'csv'
require 'nokogiri'

xml = File.read('googlebase_feed.xml')
doc = Nokogiri::XML(xml)

all_the_things = []

id, title, link, description, condition, price, sale_price, availability, image_link, ship_price, ship_method = ""

doc.xpath('//item').each do |file|
  
  id             = file.xpath("//*[name()='g:id']").first.text rescue "unset"
  title          = file.xpath("./title").first.text rescue "unset"
  link           = file.xpath("./link").first.text rescue "unset"
  description    = file.xpath("./description").first.text rescue "unset"
  condition      = file.xpath("//*[name()='g:condition']").first.text rescue "unset"
  price          = file.xpath("//*[name()='g:price']").first.text rescue "unset"
  sale_price     = file.xpath("//*[name()='g:sale_price']").first.text rescue "unset"
  availability   = file.xpath("//*[name()='g:availablity']").first.text rescue "unset"
  image_link     = file.xpath("//*[name()='g:image_link']").first.text rescue "unset"
  ship_price     = file.xpath("//*[name()='g:shipping/price']").first.text rescue "unset"
  ship_method    = file.xpath("//*[name()='g:shipping/shipping_label']").first.text rescue "unset"

  all_the_things << [id, title, link, description, condition, price, sale_price, availability, image_link, ship_price, ship_method]

end

CSV.open('googlebase.csv', 'wb' ) do |row|
  row << [id, title, link, description, condition, price, sale_price, availability, image_link, ship_price, ship_method]
  all_the_things.each do |data|
    row << data
  end
end