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VirtualBox News Atom Feed

A few days ago I decided I wanted a feed of the VirtualBox News page. I mainly wanted this to know when new releases are made. Whilst the application does update itself, sometimes I go a while without firing it up so seeing the release in Fever would be nice.

After some brief Googling I didn't come across anything that was obviously designed to create feeds from Ruby (outside of Rails). So I opened up the Atom Feed spec and built the feed manually. The end result is a Ruby script and a feed (updated daily) at: http://home.wezm.net/files/virtualbox.atom. Thanks to the brilliant nokogiri this was relatively straightforward.

My script is below:

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