http://5Valleys.com/tags/#{params[:tag_id]/posts en-us 40 Rails, Software Development, Western Montana, and other incoherent ramblings. Anyone subscribed to an RSS feed for this blog should update their feed URLs. The old ones should still be working for now, but it won't be long until I remove support for them and only support the new ones. So, consider yourselves warned. <a href='http://www.5valleys.com/posts/39-RSS-Feed-URLs-to-Change'>continue...</a> Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:22:00 +0000 http://www.5valleys.com/posts/39-RSS-Feed-URLs-to-Change jsgarvin Rails REST RSS I got RSS working for the blog software last week sometime, and just got around to deploying the update to the server. Seems to work well. It's only been in the last year that I really started to understand the power of RSS feeds... and maybe I still don't understand, but now that I think I 'get it', it seems that a lot of sites are doing it wrong. For instance, when I subscribe to the RSS feed on this page, I expect to get notified of new stories that have to do with the "Environment and Energy". However, the stories currently showing on the feed tied to that page have headlines like "Microsoft probes possible Xbox Live fraud", and "Google will buy TV ad company, Blodget predicts". WTF? If I can get to a single page that narrows down the list of news articles to a specific subject or category, then the RSS feed linked on that page should only notify me about new stories on THAT page... not the entire damn site. So, the RSS feeds on MY podunk site work the way I think they should. For instance, if you're only interested in articles about my pet peeves, and not remotely interested in articles on RSS (unless such articles also happen to be about one of my pet peeves, too), then you simply need to go to the page listing all my posts with the 'PetPeeves' tag, and subscribe to it's RSS feed. Then your feed reader will only be alerted to new articles that appear on THAT page, and you won't hear anything about new articles with me rambling on about Energy Conservation, or Hiking, or Flying Spaghetti Monsters, unless any of those posts also happen to be about a pet peeve of mine in that subject area. Of course, if you really do want to be notified of every new post, regardless of subject matter, then subscribe to the feed on the main page and that's what you'll get. What a concept!!! I ought to patent this! And the code to make that work took me a whole evening to do... having never coded an RSS feed before in my life. Shame on you CNET. <a href='http://www.5valleys.com/posts/3-RSS-Working'>continue...</a> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:15:48 +0000 http://www.5valleys.com/posts/3-RSS-Working jsgarvin RSS