Feedcatcher is a lightweight RSS server that accepts write requests from anonymous clients. It was developed for the {Sense programming environment}[http://sense.open.ac.uk].
-Feedcatcher was the first version of the RSS server. It has since been reimplemented, more robustly, but the {Open University}[http://www.open.ac.uk] for use in the {My Digital Life module}[http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/course/tu100.htm].
+Feedcatcher was the first version of the RSS server. It has since been reimplemented, more robustly, by the {Open University}[http://www.open.ac.uk] for use in the {My Digital Life module}[http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/course/tu100.htm]. However, this version should still work with Sense. It's not been tested with the very latest versions, but nothing in that part of Sense has changed since it used this implementation of Feedcatcher.
-Feel free to clone and modify this application.
+Feel free to clone and modify this application. Let me know what you do with it!
== Installation
Feedcatcher is written in Rails 2.3.2 (vendored in) and runs on Ruby 1.8.7. I've not tried it with later versions of Ruby or Rails. Updating Ruby should be OK, but changing to Rails 3.x will probably break things.
-You'll need to update the +deploy.rb+ file to wherever you're installing from and to.
+You'll need to update the create the +database.yml+ and +deploy.rb+ files for your installation. You can use the +database.sample.yml+ and +deploy.sample.rb+ files as templates. In particular, +deploy.sample.rb+ still refers to when feedcatcher was stored in a Subversion repository.
== Instructions
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