Using SOAP webservices on rails

Rails
1

I have an existing restful rails application. I need to add a new API.
This new API will be used by SOAP client to access the application.
It will be really helpful if someone can guide me or point me to the
useful links.

After googling for few days I do know we can use actionwebservice gem
along with many other gem.
If someone can give me more information on the soap routes in rails
that will be awesome.

Thanks in advance
Binesh

2

Hi!

I suggest you look at soap4r. Here you will find “Geting started
guide”:
http://markthomas.org/2007/09/12/getting-started-with-soap4r/

  • Oto
3

soap4r hasn’t had a release since September 2007
(soap4r | RubyGems.org | your community gem host), so that might not be the best option.

If you don’t need any fancy WS-standards then you could also simply
create a controller for it and render the appropriate XML responses
yourself.

4

Thanks Mark and Oto. Sorry had been busy working on something else.
Mark I don’t need any fancy web standards. Its just the 3rd party tool
that
will be accessing my application using SOAP services.
Note: My application is already up and running using REST.

I did try using some actionwebservice gems like rubyjedi and
datanoise.
Thing is that when I create a new controller in my current app using
soap. It gives me routes error. And i am not able to figure out
next steps.

Thanks

5

No worries :slight_smile: