Personal feed aggregator

This is a feed aggregator, that fetches, caches, and renders the RSS feeds of a few different blogs.

It depends on memcached as a store, but will continue working (a little slower) if memcached is not available.

Run the application

You'll first need ruby and bundler. Run bundle install to install all required gems.

Start memcached with Docker:

docker run --name memcached -p 11211:11211 -d memcached memcached -m 164

Start the application:

# Add  `-f Procfile.dev` in development
foreman start

Visit /following to see the RSS feeds.

Add feeds

Have a look in Feeds, and add to the list there.

Keeping the feed fresh

Note: This part is only relevant if you're running memcached.

To make the feed load faster, you can run the application in 'read-ahead' mode. Do this using whenever to create a cron job that'll keep the cache fresh:

whenever --update-crontab

You may need to install whenever e.g. with sudo apt install ruby-whenever.

Deployment

Capistrano