pluto-news library - newsreader for easy (re)use - build your own newsfeed in 5 minutes

[Gerald Bauer]

Hello,

I've put together a new `News` module that offers easy to (re)use
"porcelain" helpers / methods that hide the "plumbing" of the pluto
machinery for building your own newsreader or newsfeeds in minutes in
two easy steps, that is, `News.subscribe` and `News.update`.

The All Together Now - Let's Build A Newsfeed in 20 Lines from the readme:

```
require 'pluto/news'

## Step 1 - Subscribe

News.subscribe(
'http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/feeds/news.rss', # Ruby Lang News
'http://www.jruby.org/atom.xml', # JRuby Lang News
'http://blog.rubygems.org/atom.xml', # RubyGems News
'http://bundler.io/blog/feed.xml', # Bundler News
'http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/feed/atom.xml', # Ruby on Rails News
'http://sinatrarb.com/feed.xml', # Sinatra News
'https://hanamirb.org/atom.xml', # Hanami News
'http://jekyllrb.com/feed.xml', # Jekyll News
'http://feeds.feedburner.com/jetbrains_rubymine?format=xml', #
RubyMine IDE News
'https://blog.phusion.nl/rss/', # Phusion News
'https://rubyinstaller.org/feed.xml', # Ruby Installer
for Windows News
'http://planetruby.github.io/calendar/feed.xml', # Ruby Conferences
& Camps News
'https://rubytogether.org/news.xml', # Ruby Together News
'https://foundation.travis-ci.org/feed.xml', # Travis Foundation News
'https://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/blog.xml', # Rails Girls
Summer of Code News

'http://blog.zenspider.com/atom.xml', # Ryan Davis @
Seattle › Washington › United States
'http://tenderlovemaking.com/atom.xml', # Aaron Patterson @
Seattle › Washington › United States
'http://blog.headius.com/feed.xml', # Charles Nutter @
Richfield › Minnesota › United States
'http://www.schneems.com/feed.xml', # Richard Schneeman @
Austin › Texas › United States
'https://eregon.me/blog/feed.xml', # Benoit Daloze @
Zurich › Switzerland
'http://samsaffron.com/posts.rss', # Sam Saffron @
Sydney › Australia
)

## Step 2 - Update

News.update

### Step 3 - Query and Remix the News Items

puts ":::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::"
puts ":: #{News.items.count} news items from #{News.channels.count} channels:"
puts
puts "100 Latest News Items"
News.latest.limit( 100 ).each do |item|
print "%4dd " % (Date.today.jd-item.updated.to_date.jd)
print " #{item.updated}"
print " - #{item.title}"
print " - #{URI(item.feed.feed_url).host}"
print "\n"
end
```

resulting in:

```
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:: 793 news items from 21 channels:

100 Latest News Items
0d 2020-02-04 00:00:00 - RubyNess @ Inverness, Scotland, United
Kingdom - planetruby.github.io
0d 2020-02-04 00:00:00 - Ruby by the Bay (Ruby for Good, West
Coast Edition) @ Marin Headlands (near San Francisco), California,
United States - planetruby.github.io
8d 2020-01-27 14:44:38 - RubyMine 2020.1 EAP is Open! - jetbrains.com
11d 2020-01-24 00:00:00 - Crowdfunding for 2020 scholarships has
commenced - railsgirlssummerofcode.org
15d 2020-01-20 00:00:00 - Alumni Interview with Keziah Naggita -
railsgirlssummerofcode.org
16d 2020-01-19 00:00:00 - This week in Rails - Rack 2.1 released,
disallowed deprecations, and more! - weblog.rubyonrails.org
19d 2020-01-16 00:00:00 - RubyConf Belarus (BY) @ Minsk, Belarus -
planetruby.github.io
22d 2020-01-13 14:00:39 - Guide to String Encoding in Ruby -
tenderlovemaking.com
23d 2020-01-12 23:00:00 - A Migration Path to Bundler 2+ - eregon.me
24d 2020-01-11 00:00:00 - This week in Rails - Deprecations,
bugfixes and improvements! - weblog.rubyonrails.org
30d 2020-01-05 00:00:00 - This week in Rails - The 2019 edition -
weblog.rubyonrails.org
30d 2020-01-05 00:00:00 - RubyInstaller 2.7.0-1 released - rubyinstaller.org
32d 2020-01-03 00:00:00 - Submit Your Open Source Projects -
railsgirlssummerofcode.org
34d 2020-01-01 00:00:00 - Happy new year & Sinatra 2.0.8! - sinatrarb.com
39d 2019-12-27 00:00:00 - Ruby 2.7.0, Rails 6.0.2.1 and more -
weblog.rubyonrails.org
41d 2019-12-25 00:00:00 - Ruby 2.7.0 Released - ruby-lang.org
...
```

Happy planet. Cheers. Prost.

[1] https://github.com/feedreader/pluto/tree/master/pluto-news