Podcastinator
This is a gem for generating the XML for a podcast feed.
Installation
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'podcastinator'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install podcastinator
Usage
Create a Feed object with items
feed =
Podcastinator::Feed.new({
:author => "Mr. Bob Example",
:copyright => "Copyright 2001 Bob Example Inc",
:description => "This is Bob's podcast. Do not mess with Bob.",
:image_url => "http://example.com/podcast.png",
:keywords => [ "bob", "example" ],
:language => "English",
:owner_name => "Bob Example",
:owner_email => "bob@example.com",
:subtitle => "Don't mess with the bob.",
:title => "Bob's EXTREME Podcast",
:url => "http://example.com/podcast.xml",
:items => [{
:author => "Sue Example",
:duration => "127",
:file_size => "92812",
:filename => "episode-128.mp3",
:guid => "http://example.com/episodes/128.html",
:image_url => "http://example.com/episodes/128.png",
:keywords => [ "sue", "example" ],
:mime_type => "audio/mp3",
:subtitle => "Sue's episode, it's great!",
:summary => "This episode is dedicated to Sue.",
:time => Time.parse("April 21, 2010 6:24pm CDT").utc,
:title => "Episode 128",
:url => "http://example.com/episodes/128.mp3",
}, {
:author => "Ms. Sue Example",
:duration => "256",
:file_size => "92912",
:filename => "episode-129.mp3",
:guid => "http://example.com/episodes/129.html",
:image_url => "http://example.com/episodes/129.png",
:keywords => [ "sue", "example", "two" ],
:mime_type => "audio/mp3",
:subtitle => "Sue's second episode, it's great!",
:summary => "This second episode is dedicated to Sue.",
:time => Time.parse("April 22, 2010 6:24pm CDT").utc,
:title => "Episode 129",
:url => "http://example.com/episodes/129.mp3",
}],
})Then extract the XML from the feed object
xml = feed.to_xmlThe XML generator can accept any object that responds to the following methods:
author
copyright
description
image_url
items
keywords
language
owner_name
owner_email
subtitle
title
url
The items value should be an array of objects that respond to the following methods:
author
duration
file_size
guid
image_url
keywords
mime_type
subtitle
summary
time
title
url
Contributing
- Fork it ( https://github.com/alexmchale/podcastinator/fork )
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature) - Create a new Pull Request