I’m happy to say that I’m almost done with my newest project – Royner. It doesn’t live anywhere yet, just on my local machine, but heres what it is:
Really simple – you give Royner a feed (Atom, RSS, XML) and Royner monitors that feed for some keywords that you define. So, lets say you want to monitor the Slickdeals.net RSS feed of deals for “FAR” (Free after rebate). When something is posted that is free after rebate, Royner will send you an IM letting you know of the deal and the url. You could use it for whatever you want. Monitor blogs, Digg, hell, even your email.
Currently, only Jabber/GTalk is supported since it is the easiest to integrate.
Pretty neat eh?
Heres some screenies. Hopefully it will be ready for the public in a week or so.
The one thing I’ll say is this though – I used backgroundrb to monitor the feeds. Now, once I got it running ok, it worked wonderfully, but I swear it was the most difficult Rails plugin to get working. I spent an ENTIRE day trying to get it to work. In the end, I uninstalled and reinstalled the plugin and that did it. The first time I installed, for some reason an old version was installed and none of the documentation worked. Blah.