# Re: Anyone integrated with Avalara?

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 21, 2008, 6:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-anyone-integrated-with-avalara/141072 "2008-06-21T18:26:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 6:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-anyone-integrated-with-avalara/141072/1 "2008-06-21T18:26:35Z")

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Hi Nik:

Rick Troemel here, Avalara Tech Support.

Avalara is a WSDL web service, used to calculate sales tax for intra and  
inter-state transacitons. Many of our clients are ecommerce  
applications  
like yourself. Programatically, the Avalara service is called via our  
.NET,  
java, or PHP SDK.

Your best option to call the Avalara service from Ruby on Rails would  
probably be via the java SDK and a Ruby to Java bridge. We have at  
least  
one client using Ruby on Rails via a Ruby to Java bridge to call the  
Avalara  
Service with great success. I will send her an email on the side to see  
if  
she would be wiling to share her experiences on this forum. Note that  
the  
use of the java SDK in this way does not require any java programming,  
since  
you are making the Java method calls from within the Ruby environment.

In the interim, there may well be other users that have used the Ruby to  
Java bridge in other ways that may be able to help with that side of the  
equation. Of course we (Avalara) can help you with the java part once  
you  
have worked out how to make the java calls from within the Ruby  
environment.  
Email removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid for assistance in this regard,

I hope this is helpful.

Best Regards,  
Rick Troemel  
Avalara Tech Support  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid

Nik B wrote:

> Thanks,  
> Nik
> 
> >

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