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Those are just some of the big names, but there are literally hundreds of thousands of applications built with the framework since its release in 2004. You’ve probably already used many of the applications that were built with Ruby on Rails: Basecamp, HEY, GitHub, Shopify, Airbnb, Twitch, SoundCloud, Hulu, Zendesk, Square, Cookpad. Latest version - Rails 6.1.4.1 released August 19, 2021 It includes everything you need to build fantastic applications, and you can learn it with the support of our large, friendly community. Ruby on Rails makes it much easier and more fun. Learning to build a modern web application is daunting. We need to tell our Rails app to redirect all traffic except Feedburner from our true RSS URL to the Feedburner one.Imagine what you could build if you learned Ruby on Rails… If they are clever they can still find the URL and use it instead, bypassing Feedburner. Once you have this new URL you can start distributing it to your users. In order to use Feedburner, first create an account and then burn a feed using the URL generated by the above method - it will probably be something like. This is all you have to do to provide an RSS feed to your users. Next we just need to add a link to our RSS feed somewhere on our site, usually on the front page in the main menu. The post URL is a good option for us here since it fits that criteria. This should never change and should not be the same as any other post. The guid is extremely important here: it is the unique identifier that RSS readers will use to determine if a reader has read a particular post or not. Each item includes the title, description, publication date, a link to the post, and a guid. We then iterate over the variable and render a new feed item for each one. Most of the details are pretty self explanatory: We use the predefined xml object to create an RSS feed, where we set the title, description, and a link to our original content. description "An enlightening blog about stuff" xml. All we need to do is add a different view called, and if our posts_controller gets a request for an RSS file, it will automatically choose to render this view instead of the HTML one.īuilder is a lightweight Ruby library pre-packed with Rails for building out XML documents, which is all an RSS feed really is. In your posts_controller you probably have an index method that retrieves all or some of your posts, assigns it to a variable called and then defers to the or view to do the rendering of these posts. Lets say, for the sake of this example, that you own a blog called BloggyJenkins and you want your users to be able to use an RSS reader to subscribe to your posts. All this really means is that we need to provide an RSS version of whatever view we want our users to be able to subscribe too, in addition to the regular HTML view. The first thing we need to do in our Rails app is publish a feed. This lets Feedburner act as a proxy between your readers and your feed so that it can analyze traffic on your feed, and if you have a Google Adsense account you can easily integrate ads into your feed as well. This works by creating (or “burning”) an RSS feed in Feedburner by giving it the URL to the RSS feed on your website, and then Feedburner will give you a new URL to provide to your users.
Feedburner is a free Google service that provides you with tools to analyze traffic among your RSS feeds, and to embed advertisements in those feeds.