# SOAP and Ruby 1.9

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/soap-and-ruby-1-9/166635>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 28, 2009, 1:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/soap-and-ruby-1-9/166635 "2009-04-28T01:50:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 28, 2009, 1:50am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/soap-and-ruby-1-9/166635/1 "2009-04-28T01:50:45Z")

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I thought this would be a pretty simple subject but… it appears that  
is not the case.

What should I be using for SOAP in Ruby 1.9? Is there anything?

When I first set up 1.9.1 on my machine I read through this:  
[http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1\_9\_1\_0/NEWS](http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/tags/v1_9_1_0/NEWS)

In there it says under \* Deprecation: “soap, wsdl and xsd libraries:  
use soap4r gem.”

What gem?

I went to the website for soap4r ([http://dev.ctor.org/soap4r](http://dev.ctor.org/soap4r)) and the  
latest news update is from October of 2007. Is this really the only  
SOAP game out there for Ruby? I read that there’s a 1.6 development  
version but running the following seems to simply give me 1.5.8.

svn checkout [http://dev.ctor.org/svn/soap4r/trunk](http://dev.ctor.org/svn/soap4r/trunk) soap4r

Is there something else I should be using or am I out of luck for  
1.9.1 for right now? Is this project even still alive? Anyone out  
there running SOAP with 1.9?