jpo / rss-reader

A prototype RSS feed reader in Rails 3

Rails News Reader

• http://github.com/jpo/rails-news-reader

DESCRIPTION:

Rails News Reader is a web application that allows a user to subscribe to a predefined list of RSS feeds. It was created as a protoype for a feature in another application which (hopefully) accounts for it's stunning lack of features.

FEATURES:

• User accounts
• Subscribe to RSS feeds by category

Things it does not do (yet):

• Allow users to create custom categories
• Allow users to create custom feeds
• Allow users to mark feeds as read

REQUIREMENTS:

Ruby, Rake, Bundler, and Rails 3.

GETTING STARTED:

To get started quickly, you can just run it locally. Setting that up goes something like this:

• Open a terminal and navigate to the root directory of the application
• Run bundle install to install dependencies.
• Run rake db:migrate to create a local database.
• Run rake db:seed to install demo data.
• Run rails runner 'DownloadFeedsJob.run' to download RSS feeds.
• Run rails server to start a local web server.
• Open a browser and navigate to http://localhost:3000