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Rails

New Gem Released: Instagram-rss_generator

Ever wanted an RSS feed for an Instagram account? Well now you can with our latest gem. The gem works by generating the page using phantom.js, parsing the generated page using nokogiri, and then generating a valid RSS xml document using nokogiri.

Installation, usage, and source can be found on...

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Gem Mining

Mining my first gem When we decided to open-source our Instagram RSS generator, I took on the task of creating a gem to distribute it. I had never created a gem before and saw a lot of conflicting information, so I thought it would be useful to catalog my journey.

Naming I knew I wanted the name...

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