RSS feed

2020-05-23

Back when I started reading web comics, I soon found it tiresome to remember when to check for updates. I would also sometimes forget about comics or blogs altogether for months. A bit of research came up with RSS, a somewhat antiquated format, which is still used almost everywhere. These days, I follow over 100 websites by RSS feed. So I would like to give readers the same option.

Setting up the feed

It is remarkably easy to build a feed in Rails. I followed this tutorial, and got the great hint about using an online RSS feed validator from this other tutorial.

I also slapped a button on the webpage so people are aware of the feed.

In the future I want to drop the entire article in the feed, but I still have some issues with unescaped html there. I'll get to that soon.

Let me know if something does not work for you.


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