# Soap support in Rails 2.0

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/soap-support-in-rails-2-0/126142>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 15, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/soap-support-in-rails-2-0/126142 "2008-01-15T20:21:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![mr\_tibs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@mr\_tibs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mr_tibs)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/soap-support-in-rails-2-0/126142/1 "2008-01-15T20:21:57Z")

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Hi,

Was SOAP support discontinued in Rails 2.0?

I did read the release notes which mention that REST is the preferred  
web services architecture, but nowhere is mentioned that SOAP is  
completely out. I created a new Rails 2.0 app, I attempted to generate a  
web\_service controller + methods and got the following error:  
“Couldn’t find ‘web\_service’ generator” - and yes, the web\_service  
generator doesn’t exist in the rails generators directory.

Thanks,  
Tiberiu

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**Author:** ![mr\_tibs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@mr\_tibs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mr_tibs)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/soap-support-in-rails-2-0/126142/2 "2008-01-15T21:22:18Z")

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On 15 Jan 2008, at 19:21, Tiberiu M. wrote:

> “Couldn’t find ‘web\_service’ generator” - and yes, the web\_service  
> generator doesn’t exist in the rails generators directory.

actionwebservice was removed from core. It’s not hard to resurrect it  
though. I put a few notes on that up at

> **[钛刻专家——官网](https://www.texperts.com/2007/12/21/using-action-web-service-with-rails-20/)**
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Fred

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**Author:** ![mr\_tibs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@mr\_tibs](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mr_tibs)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/soap-support-in-rails-2-0/126142/3 "2008-01-15T21:51:05Z")

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And likewise, I put up a few notes about a new Ruby binding to an  
Apache Axis2-based Web Services stack. It supports SOAP 1.2 and many  
WS-\* specifications. It can be implemented in a Rails controller.

[http://markthomas.org/2008/01/14/industrial-strength-web-services-for-ruby/](http://markthomas.org/2008/01/14/industrial-strength-web-services-for-ruby/)