thingspeak/app/helpers/pages_helper.rb

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Ruby

module PagesHelper
def blog_entries
blog = ''
begin
Timeout::timeout(5) do
# get the blog data
blog_url = "http://community.thingspeak.com"
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open(blog_url, "User-Agent" => "Ruby/#{RUBY_VERSION}").read)
# parse out the html we need
doc.css("img").remove
doc.css("script").remove
doc.css("iframe").remove
doc.css("div.post").each_with_index do |d, i|
# only show 3 posts
if (i < 3)
blog += d.css("h2").to_s
blog += d.css("div.entry").to_s
blog += "<br /><br />"
end
end
end
rescue Timeout::Error
rescue
end
blog
end
end