RSS for Content Elements

[Jono]

Hi,

We've got a simple website for a buddhist community built using
Skyline CMS, which integrated into a simple Ruby on Rails directory.
We'd like to know what the Skyline Way is for creating an RSS feed of
content elements eg., for news and events.

Thanks,

Jonathan

[Luis]

Hi Jonathan,
It's nice to see other people using SkylineCMS and I hope it's been
working well for you.

Here's what we do to implement rss into content elements.

1. Create a controller for the rss feeds
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class RssFeedsController < ApplicationController
def show
if %w{news}.include?(params[:model])
@klass = params[:model].singularize.camelcase.constantize
@klass = @klass.published if @klass.respond_to?(:published)
@items = @klass.all(:limit => 20)
render :partial => "#{params[:model]}/index"
end
end
end
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2. Modify your pages_controller to assign the rss_feed link to a
variable when displaying items
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if @page_version.page.id ==
Settings.get(:news, :news_page_id).andand.to_i
renderer.assigns[:rss_feed] = rss_path(:model =>
"blog_entries", :format => :xml)
end
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3. Add the views, in this case it would be views/news/
_index.xml.builder
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xml.instruct!

xml.rss "version" => "2.0", "xmlns:dc" => "http://purl.org/dc/elements/
1.1/" do
xml.channel do

xml.title "News"
xml.link request.protocol + request.host_with_port +
Settings.get_page(:news, :news_page_id).andand.url
xml.pubDate CGI.rfc1123_date @items.first.updated_at if
@items.any?
xml.description "News"

@items.each do |item|
xml.item do

if (item.url) && item.published?
url = "#{item.url}"
else
url = ""
end

xml.title item.title
xml.link request.protocol + request.host_with_port +
url
xml.description item.published_publication_data.abstract
xml.pubDate CGI.rfc1123_date
item.published_publication_data.date ?
item.published_publication_data.date.to_time : item.updated_at
xml.guid request.protocol + request.host_with_port +
url
xml.author "SkylineCMS"
end
end

end
end
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4. Add the rss link to the html head of your page template to display
the rss icon in the address bar
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<% if @rss_feed.present? %>
<%= auto_discovery_link_tag(:rss, @rss_feed) %>
<% end %>
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Hope this helps. Let me know how you get on.

Cheers,
Luis