Convert XML collection (of Pivotal Tracker stories) to Ruby hash/object

Question

I have a collection of stories in an XML format. I would like to parse the file and return each story as either hash or Ruby object, so that I can further manipulate the data wi

Answer 1

Maybe a Ruby interface to Pivotal API can be better solution for your task, see https://github.com/jsmestad/pivotal-tracker ... then you can get stories as plain Ruby objects like (from docs):

@a_project = PivotalTracker::Project.find(84739)                              
@a_project.stories.all(:label => 'overdue', :story_type => ['bug', 'chore'])