Scott Rutherford

So you’ve seen Ryan Daigle’s article on ResourceFeeder and you want all that RSS goodness. However, you are using Rails 1.1.6 and don’t want to move to edge at the moment.

All you need to do is install the ResourceFeeder and SimplyHelpful plugins:

./script/plugin install resource_feeder
./script/plugin install simply_helpful

Then create the following directory:

vendor/plugins/resource_feeder/lib/simply_helpful

and copy this file:

vendor/plugins/simply_helpful/lib/simply_helpful/record_identifier.rb

to this new directory. You can then delete the simply_helpful directory.

Now open this file:

vendor/plugins/resource_feeder/lib/resource_feeder.rb

add this line:

require 'simply_helpful/record_identifier'

Save and quit. The last thing you need to do is add an url_for method to the controller you make the call to rss_feed_for from. This will be something like:

def post_url(post)
  return url_for(:controller => 'posts', :action => 'view', :id => post)
end

Voila, RSS for almost free………