# Rails Application vs AXIS Web Service(API)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-application-vs-axis-web-service-api/160622>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 18, 2009, 7:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-application-vs-axis-web-service-api/160622 "2009-02-18T07:06:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![stevenreplica](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@stevenreplica](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stevenreplica)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 7:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-application-vs-axis-web-service-api/160622/1 "2009-02-18T07:06:57Z")

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Guys,

I want to integrate my Rails application with another web application  
that has a Web services - AXIS. is there anyone who has an idea how to  
do this?

Thank you

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**Author:** ![stevenreplica](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@stevenreplica](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/stevenreplica)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 3:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-application-vs-axis-web-service-api/160622/2 "2009-02-18T15:57:42Z")

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Steven Kukuzi wrote:

> Guys,
> 
> I want to integrate my Rails application with another web application  
> that has a Web services - AXIS. is there anyone who has an idea how to  
> do this?
> 
> Thank you

There is two options I know of:

Option 1:

[sudo] gem install actionwebservice

This will install the old SOAP web service support that was pulled from  
Rails core at version 1.2.6. I have no idea if this still works with the  
latest Rails versions.

Option 2:

> **[GitHub - datanoise/actionwebservice: This project is discontinued](https://github.com/datanoise/actionwebservice/tree/master)**
>
> master

My guess is that this will work better. From what I can tell this is  
basically Option 1 updated for Rails 2.2.2 and appears to be under  
active development unlike the stuff pulled from Rails core when they  
sanely decided that REST is the future of web services. The “rest” of  
the world, unfortunately, hasn’t realized this yet.

Note: I’ve not used either one of these myself, but I do have  
significant experience with SOAP services in the Java world, which is  
also seriously unfortunate.