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Yahoo weather for Conky

I wrote a Ruby script that parses a Yahoo weather RSS feed and prints it in a form suitable for use in Conky. This is what it looks like:

Weather screenshot

The source code is here. Bugs are likely, I wrote it in 20 minutes. It requires the xml-simple Ruby module, but that's in portage (emerge xml-simple).

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3 Responses to “Yahoo weather for Conky”

  1. January 14th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
    Quoth tidiman07:

    Hey, im having a hard time getting this weather script to work. send me yours so i can see what i should fill in.

    error:
    | weather.rb:3:in `require': no such file to load — |xmlsimple (LoadError)

  2. January 15th, 2007 at 11:24 am
    Quoth Brian:

    This means you need to install the xmlsimple Ruby module. You can install it via rubygems for example. A rubygems manual is here:

    http://rubygems.org/read/book/1

    You'd install xmlsimple via something like

    sudo gem install xml-simple

  3. June 4th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
    Quoth crache:

    Change the third line

    from:
    require ‘xmlsimple'

    to:
    require ‘lib/xmlsimple'

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