Hi, Thanks for the reply. I'm using Ruby 1.8.7, specifying rss version "2.0". I have it working now ... well, the copyright is working, and my problem with lastBuildDate was because I was passing the String representation of the time, not a Time object - the error message was not obvious. Passing Time.now and it works. My final issue (I hope) is that even though I have: m.channel.ttl = 10 and get no error message, there is no <ttl> tag in the xml. Think I might need to use some of the Maker class to add it(?) Thanks again. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.