# Looking for a publicly accessible SOAP example

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**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [January 29, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-a-publicly-accessible-soap-example/127499 "2008-01-29T21:00:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-a-publicly-accessible-soap-example/127499/1 "2008-01-29T21:00:52Z")

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I realize that SOAP is dead. I didn’t realize this until this week.  
But, I think it is certainly true.

I have spent 2 days Googling for a working Ruby SOAP example, and it  
seems that all of the SOAP services are offline. Even my company  
seems to have no employees tending to the SOAP services I am supposed  
to be utilizing. (At least said employees aren’t answering emails.)  
Before I declare that my company’s internal SOAP service is “broken”.  
I’d like to have success at using Ruby with SOAP somewhere. Does that  
make sense? I want to have one success on any example WSDL so that I  
can apply the principals to our private WSDL. Once I have done that,  
I will feel comfortable saying, “I know how to consume SOAP, and our  
SOAP is broken.” Until then, all I know is “I have never had success  
consuming any SOAP anywhere.”

Please advise.

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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-a-publicly-accessible-soap-example/127499/2 "2008-01-29T22:32:05Z")

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On Jan 29, 1:56 pm, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> can apply the principals to our private WSDL. Once I have done that,  
> I will feel comfortable saying, “I know how to consume SOAP, and our  
> SOAP is broken.” Until then, all I know is “I have never had success  
> consuming any SOAP anywhere.”
> 
> Please advise.

Are you just looking for a SOAP server to test against? I haven’t  
tried any of these, but some are at least still returning WSDLs:  
[http://soapagent.com/pages/Services/](http://soapagent.com/pages/Services/)

Or do you need an example of how to code a SOAP client in Ruby? There  
are some basic examples in the Ruby source: ruby-1.8.6/test/soap &  
ruby-1.8.6/test/wsdl

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**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/looking-for-a-publicly-accessible-soap-example/127499/3 "2008-10-03T20:07:31Z")

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unknown wrote:

> I realize that SOAP is dead. I didn’t realize this until this week.  
> But, I think it is certainly true.
> 
> I have spent 2 days Googling for a working Ruby SOAP example, and it  
> seems that all of the SOAP services are offline. …

I don’t think SOAP is dead. I have had two requests to create a client  
to access 2 different web-services just this week. Both are .NET  
systems. What is dead is the SOAP documentation for Ruby. Well,  
actually there never was any documentation (at least, that I could find  
in a 2-3 day period) beyond very simple examples. These simple functions  
don’t exist in the real world. Looking at the .NET stuff makes me  
jealous of all the information out there. Wouldn’t it be great to have a  
wrapper for the .NET SOAP classes?? 🙂

If I ever get this stuff to work I’ll post what I discover.

-David