FeedValidator

FeedValidator is an interface to the W3C Feed Validation online service, based on its SOAP 1.2 support.

It helps to find errors in RSS or ATOM feeds.

FeedValidator add a new assertion (assert_valid_feed) which you can use in Rails applications. This assertion implements a cache to improve the performance of the tests and to not abuse of the W3C Feed Validation online service

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'feed_validator'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install feed_validator

• For use FeedValidator just do this:

  require 'feed_validator'
  
  v = W3C::FeedValidator.new()
  v.validate_url('http://www.w3.org/QA/news.rss')
  puts v.to_s unless v.valid?

• In Rails you can use it in your functional tests, just modify your /test/test_helper.rb adding this line:

  require 'feed_validator/assertions'

  And now you can use in your functional test, in this way:

  def test_bar_valid_feed
    get :bar
    assert_valid_feed
  end

  Or use the class-level method to quickly create validation tests for a bunch of actions at once:

  assert_valid_feed :bar, :foo

Documentation can be found at

• http://feedvalidator.rubyforge.org

FeedValidator is released under the MIT license.