Download all files in RSS feed using Ruby

Jacken — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:26:33 +0000

I’m working on learning Ruby on Rails and one great resource that I find myself going to is RailsCast. But as I really need to learn Ruby I wanted to write a quick program to download all the episodes to my harddisk and watch them using Plex Media Center. There’s probably a million different utilities (or podcast managers) that can do that, but using them I won’t learn to program Ruby that way. There’s probably a better way of doing this, but hey, do it and post a comment. [cc lang="ruby"] require ‘rubygems’ require ‘hpricot’ require ‘open-uri’

doc = Hpricot.XML(open(“http://feeds.feedburner.com/railscasts”))

(doc/”enclosure”).each do |para| filename = File.basename(para[:url]) puts “== Found a file #{filename}” open(filename,”w”).write(open(para[:url]).read) end [/cc]

Yes, please apple, kill AppleScript

Jacken — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:45:27 +0000

Everytime (well, last night actually) when I need to do something with Applescript I shudder with horror. The syntax is actually something you forget all the time. There must be better alternatives for Apple to use as a scripting language. I agree with this article, but Python or Ruby would be a better alternative I think.

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Download all files in RSS feed using Ruby

Yes, please apple, kill AppleScript