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.
- 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
Ruby, Rake, Bundler, and Rails 3.
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