Parse then Store XML Data from API in Ruby on Rails

I know there have been a ton of entries about this topic but I haven't seen the complete picture yet of how to store the data. I am trying to make a system that reads then parses then stores information about events from the Yahoo Upcoming API.

The url returns a pretty simple xml that looks like this

<event>
<id>489875230</id>
<description>Open Bar</description>
<status>Live</status>
<latitude>29.74</latitude>
<longitude>-95.37</longitude>
</event>

I've been reading into REXML and others but how do I take the value of the elements and store them into my model? The goal is the print the values from all the desire开发者_运维知识库d elements in the XML to textboxes to allow the data to be edited then, then letting the user save in the database...I just am having a hard time figuring out how to do something with the data once its parsed.

Any help, link, or suggestions would really help me out alot.

set up a model with the same attributes, parse the xml to a hash, then create the model with the hash?

class CreateEvent < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def self.up
    create_table :events do |t|
    t.id :id
    t.string :decription
    t.string :status
    t.decimal :latitude
    t.decimal :longitude      #( you'll want to set the precision and scale properly here)
  end
end


data = Hash.from_xml <<EOX
<event>
<id>489875230</id>
<description>Open Bar</description>
<status>Live</status>
<latitude>29.74</latitude>
<longitude>-95.37</longitude>
</event>
EOX

Event.create!(hash[:event])