simple Ruby RSS reader (See related posts)

// fetch & parse RSS into an object

require 'rss/2.0'
require 'open-uri'

class RssReader

  def parseFeed (url, length)
    feed_url = url
    output = "";
    open(feed_url) do |http|
      response = http.read
      result = RSS::Parser.parse(response, false)
      output = "\"feedTitle\">#{result.channel.title}
" 
      result.items.each_with_index do |item, i|
        output += "
\"#{item.link}\">#{item.title}" if ++i < length  
      end 
      output += "
" 
    end
    return output
  end

end