From 424fc8e2e21cf5d2f8d83b8cdee7d32d182568ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robin Ward <robin.ward@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2016 12:29:14 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] FIX: Don't raise an error if the RSS endpoint is 404

---
 app/jobs/scheduled/poll_feed.rb | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/jobs/scheduled/poll_feed.rb b/app/jobs/scheduled/poll_feed.rb
index 8cfed445714..8c0e1e75b33 100644
--- a/app/jobs/scheduled/poll_feed.rb
+++ b/app/jobs/scheduled/poll_feed.rb
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ module Jobs
       def topics
         feed_topics = []
 
+        rss = fetch_rss
+        return feed_topics unless rss.present?
+
         rss.items.each do |i|
           current_feed_topic = FeedTopic.new(i)
           feed_topics << current_feed_topic if current_feed_topic.content
@@ -65,8 +68,10 @@ module Jobs
 
       private
 
-      def rss
+      def fetch_rss
         SimpleRSS.parse open(@feed_url, allow_redirections: :all)
+      rescue OpenURI::HTTPError
+        nil
       end
 
     end