pluto-news gem - newsreader for easy (re)use - build your own newsfeed in 5 minutes

Hello,

   I've put together a new `News` module that offers easy to (re)use
"porcelain" helpers / methods that hide the "plumbing" of the pluto
machinery for building your own newsreader or newsfeeds in minutes in
two easy steps, that is, `News.subscribe` and `News.update`.

  The All Together Now - Let's Build A Newsfeed in 20 Lines from the readme:

require 'pluto/news'

## Step 1 - Subscribe

News.subscribe(
  'http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/feeds/news.rss',     # Ruby Lang News
  'http://www.jruby.org/atom.xml',                  # JRuby Lang News
  'http://blog.rubygems.org/atom.xml',              # RubyGems News
  'http://bundler.io/blog/feed.xml',                # Bundler News
  'http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/feed/atom.xml',    # Ruby on Rails News
  'http://sinatrarb.com/feed.xml',                  # Sinatra News
  'https://hanamirb.org/atom.xml',                  # Hanami News
  'http://jekyllrb.com/feed.xml',                   # Jekyll News
  'http://feeds.feedburner.com/jetbrains_rubymine?format=xml',  #
RubyMine IDE News
  'https://blog.phusion.nl/rss/',                   # Phusion News
  'https://rubyinstaller.org/feed.xml',             # Ruby Installer
for Windows News
  'http://planetruby.github.io/calendar/feed.xml',  # Ruby Conferences
& Camps News
  'https://rubytogether.org/news.xml',              # Ruby Together News
  'https://foundation.travis-ci.org/feed.xml',      # Travis Foundation News
  'https://railsgirlssummerofcode.org/blog.xml',    # Rails Girls
Summer of Code News

  'http://blog.zenspider.com/atom.xml',          # Ryan Davis @
Seattle › Washington › United States
  'http://tenderlovemaking.com/atom.xml',        # Aaron Patterson @
Seattle › Washington › United States
  'http://blog.headius.com/feed.xml',            # Charles Nutter @
Richfield › Minnesota › United States
  'http://www.schneems.com/feed.xml',            # Richard Schneeman @
Austin › Texas › United States
  'https://eregon.me/blog/feed.xml',             # Benoit Daloze @
Zurich › Switzerland
  'http://samsaffron.com/posts.rss',             # Sam Saffron @
Sydney › Australia
  )

## Step 2 - Update

News.update

### Step 3 - Query and Remix the News Items

puts ":::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::"
puts ":: #{News.items.count} news items from #{News.channels.count} channels:"
puts
puts "100 Latest News Items"
News.latest.limit( 100 ).each do |item|
  print "%4dd " % (Date.today.jd-item.updated.to_date.jd)
  print "  #{item.updated}"
  print " - #{item.title}"
  print " - #{URI(item.feed.feed_url).host}"
  print "\n"
end

  resulting in:

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
:: 793 news items from 21 channels:

100 Latest News Items
   0d   2020-02-04 00:00:00 - RubyNess @ Inverness, Scotland, United
Kingdom - planetruby.github.io
   0d   2020-02-04 00:00:00 - Ruby by the Bay (Ruby for Good, West
Coast Edition) @ Marin Headlands (near San Francisco), California,
United States - planetruby.github.io
   8d   2020-01-27 14:44:38 - RubyMine 2020.1 EAP is Open!  - jetbrains.com
  11d   2020-01-24 00:00:00 - Crowdfunding for 2020 scholarships has
commenced - railsgirlssummerofcode.org
  15d   2020-01-20 00:00:00 - Alumni Interview with Keziah Naggita -
railsgirlssummerofcode.org
  16d   2020-01-19 00:00:00 - This week in Rails - Rack 2.1 released,
disallowed deprecations, and more! - weblog.rubyonrails.org
  19d   2020-01-16 00:00:00 - RubyConf Belarus (BY) @ Minsk, Belarus -
planetruby.github.io
  22d   2020-01-13 14:00:39 - Guide to String Encoding in Ruby -
tenderlovemaking.com
  23d   2020-01-12 23:00:00 - A Migration Path to Bundler 2+ - eregon.me
  24d   2020-01-11 00:00:00 - This week in Rails - Deprecations,
bugfixes and improvements! - weblog.rubyonrails.org
  30d   2020-01-05 00:00:00 - This week in Rails - The 2019 edition -
weblog.rubyonrails.org
  30d   2020-01-05 00:00:00 - RubyInstaller 2.7.0-1 released - rubyinstaller.org
  32d   2020-01-03 00:00:00 - Submit Your Open Source Projects -
railsgirlssummerofcode.org
  34d   2020-01-01 00:00:00 - Happy new year & Sinatra 2.0.8! - sinatrarb.com
  39d   2019-12-27 00:00:00 - Ruby 2.7.0, Rails 6.0.2.1 and more -
weblog.rubyonrails.org
  41d   2019-12-25 00:00:00 - Ruby 2.7.0 Released - ruby-lang.org
  ...

  Happy planet. Cheers. Prost.

[1] https://github.com/feedreader/pluto/tree/master/pluto-news

Hello,

     a follow-up to the new News module to get you started really
quick. A new news.rb quick starter script [1] that lets you build your
own facebook newsfeed in 1-2-3 steps in 5 minutes.

     Use the 20+ pre-configured ruby news channels or add your own.

  Happy planet! Cheers.

[1] https://github.com/feedreader/news.rb