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require 'rss/0.9'
require 'open-uri'
require 'rdoc/template'
require 'net/ftp'

TEMPLATE = %{
  <div class="blogentries">
    START:entries
    <div class="blogentry">
      <a href="%link%">
          <span class="blogentrytitle">%title%</span>
      </a>
      <div class="blogentrydescription">
        %description%
      </div>
    </div>
    END:entries
  </div>
}

TMP_FILE = "/tmp/topfive"
BLOG_URL = ARGV[0] || fail "Missing URL"

open(BLOG_URL) do |http|
  result = RSS::Parser.parse(http.read, false)
  entries = result.items.map do |item|
    {
    'title' => item.title,
    'link' => item.link,
    'description' => item.description
    }
  end

  File.open(TMP_FILE, "w") do |f|
    t = TemplatePage.new(TEMPLATE)
    t.write_html_on(f, 'entries' => entries)
  end
end

Net::FTP.open('www.pragmaticprogrammer.com') do |ftp|
ftp.login('user, 'passwd')
ftp.chdir('starter_kit/au')
ftp.put(TMP_FILE, 'topfive', 1024)
end