Arrogance

What Arrogance does

Arrogance provides an easy way to work with RSS/Atom feeds.

How to use it

All you have to do is pass is a list of urls to following method:


    Arrogance::Lasso.read([list, of, urls])

Arguments: A list of urls. This param can take one of two forms:

1: Hash structured as follows:


{:term => [Array, of, urls],
:barack_obamas_second_term => [Another, array, of, urls]
:etc … }

2: Array:


[Array, of, urls, that, can, be, as, long, as, you, want]

Returns: In either case, the return will be of the same structure. However, any array(s) of urls passed in will be replaced (non-destructive) with array(s) of BlogObjects:


    {:term => [BlogObject<#*@&#>, BlogObject<@&^#^@>, BlogObject<rubbish_chars>]}


    [BlogObject<#*@&#>, BlogObject<@&^#^@>, BlogObject<rubbish_chars>]

The returned BlogObject(s) can be manipulated as follows


    my_blog_object.most_recent 
    => {:title => 'Blogger stating opinions!', :date => '2011-11-11...', :etc => '...'} #<-- Thats a hash, treat it like one
    my_blog_object.most_recent[:title]
    => 'Blogger stating opinions!'

You can retrive individual posts by stating their position in reverse chronological order (newest first)

      
    my_blog_object.first
    => {:title => 'Blogger stating opinions!', :date => '2011-11-11 12:34:25', :etc => '...'}


    my_blog_object.first_and_seventh
    => [{:title => 'Blogger stating opinions', :yada => 'yada'}, {:title => 'Look at ma kittehs!!1!one', ...}]

Feel free to get rediculous. Doing


    my_blog_object.first_and_second_and_fourth_and_ninth

works just fine. You call up to #tenth

Additionally, you can retrive the feed title, site link and feed_image (if they exist) by calling feed_title, #site_link and #feed_image methods of the BlogObject

The guts of a BlogObject are really just an array of hashes. If you just want to deal with that yourself and not take advantage of all the cool methods I made for you, thats fine. Just call


    my_blog_object.guts

and you can get that array of hashes to play with.

Contributing

Add whatever you think is needed and send a pull request or contact me (details below) with ideas.

Contact

Email: [email protected]

License

Arrogance and all associated files are licensed under GPLv3