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Typo Feeds

Posted by Charlie Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:50:00 GMT

One of the nice new featues in the HEAD version of Typo is per-category feeds. However, it wasn't quite obvious to me how to access them. A quick look at xml_controller.rb and routes.rb cleared things up.

From routes.rb we can see that you can specify a :type and :id when requesting a feed.

 map.xml 'xml/:format/feed.xml', :controller => 'xml',
         :action => 'feed', :type => 'feed'
  map.xml 'xml/:format/:type/feed.xml', :controller => 'xml',
         :action => 'feed'
  map.xml 'xml/:format/:type/:id/feed.xml', :controller => 'xml',
         :action => 'feed'

Digging through xml_controller.rb we can then see that the allowed types are:

comments
trackbacks
article
category
tag

So to see an atom feed of all the articles you've written categorized under Ruby you'd use this url:

mysite/xml/atom10/category/ruby/feed.xml

Posted in Ruby | 5 comments | 2 trackbacks

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berkus said 18 days later:

sorry, trying to leave trackback to your site but can’t figure how to do it with Typo…
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Charlie said 18 days later:

Hi Berkus, no problem and its seems to have worked fine. I know the typo devs are working on making trackbacks even better, looking forward to the next release.
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berkus said 18 days later:

It actually didn’t work as I expected and it left some strange url in the trackback. I’m digging typo internals in search of how to trackback properly and it seems I need to add some form field before I can do it - we shall see soon ^__^
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berkus said 18 days later:

Now that works correctly ^__^

Thanks for being (unsuspectedly) my trackback victim :)
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Charlie said 19 days later:

Hi Berkus - Great work on your patch. Hope you get those test written so it can get merged into typo head!