planet.rb

planet.rb is a RSS aggregator to make "planet" site such as <URL:http://planet.debian.net>.

Download

<URL:http://rubyforge.org/projects/planet/>

Requires

• Ruby 1.8.2 or later.

  planet.rb uses YAML, ERb, RSS, REXML, iconv, fcntl, gdbm, etc.

• HTree

  HTree is a HTML/XML tree library. It can get from:

  • <URL:http://cvs.m17n.org/~akr/htree/>
  • <URL:http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/htree/>

Optional

• Uconv

  You should install Uconv If you will process RSS encoded in EUC-JP. It can get from:

  • <URL:http://www.yoshidam.net/Ruby.html#uconv>

Install

• edit shebang line of bin/planet.rb.
• cp bin/planet.rb /path/to/dir
• chmod +x /path/to/dir/planet.rb

Usage

• edit config file and template files.
• run /path/to/dir/planet.rb config-file

You can write config file as YAML. And you can write templete files as eRuby. Examples are in "examples" directory.

Live examples

• <URL:http://planet.yendot.org> (Japanese, UTF-8)

  It aggregates some feeds of my friends.

• <URL:http://planet.yendot.org/tdiary.html>

  It contains same as the above and uses a theme of tDiary. The theme is selected randomly at update time.

NOTE

planet.rb is in ALPHA status. The code, config, template, etc may be changed.

Author

• akira yamada <URL:http://arika.org>