# Actionwebservice for rails2.2.2 / ruby 1.8.7

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 27, 2009, 10:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionwebservice-for-rails2-2-2-ruby-1-8-7/161548 "2009-02-27T10:07:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![wanyixue](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@wanyixue](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wanyixue)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 10:07am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionwebservice-for-rails2-2-2-ruby-1-8-7/161548/1 "2009-02-27T10:07:36Z")

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has anyone gotten action actionwebservice to work for this config ?

tried instructions from

> **[钛刻专家——官网](https://www.texperts.com/2007/12/21/using-action-web-service-with-rails-20/)**
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and got a “activate’: can’t activate actionpack” on server startup

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**Author:** ![wanyixue](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@wanyixue](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wanyixue)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2009, 10:21am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionwebservice-for-rails2-2-2-ruby-1-8-7/161548/2 "2009-02-27T10:21:51Z")

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On Feb 27, 9:07 am, Lin Wj [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> has anyone gotten action actionwebservice to work for this config ?
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> tried instructions fromhttp://www.texperts.com/2007/12/21/using-action-web-service-with-rail…
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> and got a “activate’: can’t activate actionpack” on server startup

That’s almost what I use (i doubt ruby 1.8.6 versus 1.8.7) and those  
instructions work for me (I wrote them :-))

The key thing is to freeze all of rails. You might also want to have a  
look at the datanoise-actionwebservice gem.

Fred