ActionWebServer and SOAPFault

Rails
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I’m really new to RoR and my first task is to write SOAP web service.
The problem is that I don’t understand how to send custom SOAPFault
messages in case of the errors.

For example, I have FindCustomerById API signature:

api_method :find_customer_by_id,
:expects => [{:customer_id => :int}],
:returns => [Customer]

And controller:

def find_customer_by_id(customer_id)
Customer.find(customer_id)
end

The requirement from the vendor is that if such customer does not exist
I have to send back to client SOAPFault message with faultcode =
“error”, faultstring = “no such customer” and such detail:

incorrect_request Custome with such customer_id does not exists

I’m cant figure out how to construct such SOAPFault message and send it
back. Please help me, with some example code if possible.