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tl;dr http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipeslivibetter/newrubygems

I have been monitoring Python Packages for quite some time, few days ago, I wanted to expand to the gems on RubyGems.org. Sadly, it doesnt even have any feeds for newly created packages.

The best option for me is to utilize the /api/v1/activity/latest of the Activity APIwhich has XML, JSON, and YAML formatswith the help from Yahoo! Pipes:

$ curl 'https://rubygems.org/api/v1/activity/latest.json'

You can grab the feed at http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipeslivibetter/newrubygems.

Thhttps://bitbucket.org/grandpas/e.bashe source looks like:

It only took me 10 minutes or less to figure out how to make such conversion. This was my first time to use Yahoo! Pipes to convert a JSON to an RSS feed.

Although it works well and is very simple, this isnt my ideal solution. I actually asked someone who knows about Ruby to add feed support and timestamp to RubyGems.orgs source code. Thats not going to happen by the person I asked, so if you know about Ruby and you have time, please think about adding such feed to it.

I am thinking to create a couple of issues, but not really sure if I should do that since I dont think I can even call myself a Ruby user.

Before that, well, this feed would do just fine.

import ruby

def ruby_add(a, b)
  a + b
end

import python

def python_add(a, b):
  return ruby_add(a, b)

print python_add(3, 4) // -> 7