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Pluto is a feed aggregator used to create sites similar to PlanetRubyonRails.com written by Bradly Feeley

Required gems: erubis activesupport feed-normalizer

Example implementation: require 'aggregator' require 'showcase'

merb_feeds = Aggregator.new( [ 'http://yehudakatz.com/feed/', 'http://feedproxy.feedburner.com/crazycool', 'http://www.merbing.com/articles.rss', 'http://blog.merbivore.com/articles.rss', 'http://merbist.com/feed/', 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/gweezlebur', 'http://jackndempsey.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default', 'http://brainspl.at/xml/rss20/feed.xml', 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/hassox' ] )

twitter_feeds = Aggregator.new( [ 'http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=merb', 'http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/16334375.rss'] )

view = Showcase.new(merb_feeds, twitter_feeds, 15) view.render_output

The code about assumes you have a Erubis file called default.html in the working directory. Just set this script to run every 15 minutes with a cronjob and your all set!

Pluto was written by Bradly Feeley (http://www.bradlyfeeley.com)