RSS Feed Reading

Here we look at reading RSS feeds in CW.

There are plenty of RSS feeds available over the internet that can be utilized to help improve code recognition and comprehension. Several are included with CW whilst others may be added.

The built-in feeds are:

Reuters (news feed)
BBC (news feed)
Guardian (news feed)
Quotation (quotation updated daily)

read_rss command

You use the read_rss command to read RSS feeds. read_rss accepts two parameters:

source
article_count

Read the quote of the day

Note: Quote of the day is courtesy of feedburner.com

  require "cw"

# rss_feed.rb

cw do
  comment 'read daily quotation via RSS feed (1 article)'
  read_rss(:quotation, 1)
  wpm 18
  ewpm 12
end

rss_feed.rb

Note: You will need an internet connection to be able to run these tests successfully!

Play two articles from the BBC feed

Note: Courtesy of the British Broadcasting Corporation

  require "cw"

# rss_feed_2.rb

cw do
  comment 'read 2 BBC news articles'
  read_rss(:bbc, 2)
  wpm 18
  ewpm 12
end

rss_feed_2.rb

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