Integrated feeds on homepage into a new feed

config/urls.py

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ from django.views.generic import TemplateView
 from django.views import defaults as default_views
 from mhackspace.contact.views import contact
 from mhackspace.members.views import MemberListView
+from mhackspace.base.feeds import LatestEntriesFeed
 
 urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name='pages/home.html'), name='home'),
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ urlpatterns = [
     url(r'^accounts/', include('allauth.urls')),
 
     # Your stuff: custom urls includes go here
+    url(r'^latest/$', LatestEntriesFeed()),
 
 
 ] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

mhackspace/base/feeds.py

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+from django.contrib.syndication.views import Feed
+from django.urls import reverse
+from mhackspace.feeds.models import Article
+
+class LatestEntriesFeed(Feed):
+    title = "Maidstone hackspace site news"
+    link = "/latest/"
+    description = "Latest creations from our users."
+
+    def items(self):
+        return Article.objects.all()[:5]
+
+    def item_title(self, item):
+        return item.title
+
+    def item_description(self, item):
+        return item.description
+
+    def item_link(self, item):
+        return item.url 

mhackspace/base/management/commands/generate_test_data.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from autofixture import AutoFixture
 from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand
-from mhackspace.feeds.models import Article
+from mhackspace.feeds.models import Article, Feed
 from mhackspace.users.models import User
 
 
@@ -11,7 +11,10 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
         users = AutoFixture(User)
         users.create(10)
 
-        feeds = AutoFixture(User)
+        feed = AutoFixture(Feed)
+        feed.create(10)
+
+        feeds = AutoFixture(Article)
         feeds.create(10)
 
         self.stdout.write(

mhackspace/templates/feeds/list.html

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
       <div class="card-block">
         <a href="{{ article.url }}" class="card-link"><h4 class="card-title">{{ article.title }}</h4></a>
         <p class="card-text">{{ article.feed.author }}</p>
-        <p class="card-text">{{ article.description|striptags }}</p>
+        <p class="card-text">{{ article.description|striptags|truncatewords:30 }}</p>
         <a href="{{ article.url }}" class="card-link">View Original</a>
       </div>
     </div>