Well, I just started using a very cool (albiet non ruby) wiki/blogging service called Infogami. The not so cool thing about it is that as far as I could tell, it only had Atom feeds. Since some of the syndication stuff I use is only compatible with RSS, this was almost a show stopper. Until I found out about FeedTools, of course.
The script below is now tied to a cronjob which runs every 20 minutes converting my atom feeds into rss feeds and mirroring them on my own host.
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
%w[rubygems feed_tools fileutils date].each { |l| require l }
URL = 'http://ruport.infogami.com/blog/atom.xml'
File.open("index.rss","w") do |f|
f.puts FeedTools::Feed.open(URL).build_xml("rss")
end
`scp ~/index.rss deleted@stonecode.org:~/reporting.stonecode.org/blog/`
FileUtils.rm('index.rss')
puts "feed synced at #{Time.now}"
Just another example about how Ruby makes life easier all over the place :)
Another non-ruby, but simple solution is to send the atom feed through feedburner. Feedburner will gladly take an atom feed and spit out an RSS feed.
hmm. Yeah, I should have googled first i guess. :) Then again, I learned a lot of neat things about LSA setting up authentication and crontab and whatnot that I forgot.
Also, FeedTools can do a LOT more than just this simple example, which is cool.
I'm debating whether I should tie to Feedburner or keep my existing script... will have to think on that.
Infogami is a half-baked bliki. I havent seen any development on it lately either. Great idea, real crap implementation.
It's pretty much done everything I've needed it to do. Well, minus the RSS feeds. And minus textile :-/
But I love the bliki idea. Nice to have everything in one place. But then again, I am notorious for keeping things in many places and tying them together via redirects, and this is no exception
Any suggestions for other (free) places? new_haven.rb pays for a StikiPad account which is similar to Infogami but well... costs money.