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Pluto is a feed aggregator used to create sites similiar to PlanetRubyonRails.com.

Required gems:

• erubis
• activesupport
• feed-normalizer

Example implementation:

require ‘aggregator’

require ‘showcase’
merb_feeds = Aggregator.new( [

  ‘http://yehudakatz.com/feed/’,

  ‘http://feedproxy.feedburner.com/crazycool’,

  ‘http://www.merbing.com/articles.rss’,

  ‘http://blog.merbivore.com/articles.rss’,

  ‘http://merbist.com/feed/’,

  ‘http://feeds.feedburner.com/gweezlebur’,

  ‘http://jackndempsey.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default’,

  ‘http://brainspl.at/xml/rss20/feed.xml’,

  ‘http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/hassox’ ] )
twitter_feeds = Aggregator.new( [

  ‘http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=merb’,

  ‘http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/16334375.rss’] )
view = Showcase.new(merb_feeds, twitter_feeds, 15)

view.render_output

The code about assumes you have a Erubis file called default.html in the working directory.