Feedzirra - A New Ruby Feed Library “Built for Speed”

Courtesy Ruby Inside  Tue, 02/03/2009 - 22:50

feedzirra.gif Feedzirra is an all-new Ruby feed parsing (it's not a generator) library by Paul Dix.

The choice of feed parsing libraries in Ruby has been reasonably limited so far, so Feedzirra is a most welcome addition to the Ruby ecosystem.

Its focus is on pure speed - it uses Nokogiri (an ultra fast Ruby XML parser that depends on libxml) and curb (bindings for libcurl - to do the HTTP work) so compilation is required.

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