On the right, below the twitter stream, there’s now my five most recently shared items from my Google Reader stream. Building this was really easy with nokogiri.

In application_controller.rb, I have the following before_filter:

  def load_feed
    @feed_url = 'http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user%2F08744346161133327961%2Fstate%2Fcom.google%2Fbroadcast'
    @feed = Nokogiri::XML open(@feed_url)
  end

Which allows working with the @feed document later:

- @feed.css('entry').first(5).each do |entry|
  %li
    #title= link_to entry.css('title').first.content, entry.css('link[rel=alternate]').first['href']
    #source== (via #{link_to entry.css('source title').first.content, entry.css('source link').first['href']})

I’m not sure if this is particularly efficient use of nokogiri, but the time spent parsing is likely vanishingly small compared to the time loading the feed from Google.

All told, a nice addition to this site and a convenient excuse / practice problem for XML parsing.