How do I set the location for the link in the title of a google reader subscription

Question

I've got an atom feed in my application that's build using atom_feed, and it's working, except that when the feed is subscribed to in Google Reader, the link it uses for the title of the subscription is pointing to the wrong URL.

I tried specifying the root_url parameter as such:

atom_feed(:root_url => 'http://link.to/proper.page') do |f|
  ...
end

Which has changed the href value for the <link type="text/html" rel="alternate" /> element generated, but the link in Reader stays the same. I cannot seem to find any help on this in the google reader documentation.

Answer 1

The :url option should do it, not :root_url.

I am still surprised since it defaults to the current URL. I've never had to specify it.