# Web service for processing files

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-service-for-processing-files/165145>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 9, 2009, 3:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-service-for-processing-files/165145 "2009-04-09T15:06:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 3:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-service-for-processing-files/165145/1 "2009-04-09T15:06:33Z")

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Not sure, really, where to ask this - and Rails is the first thing I  
think of when I want to wireframe something and know, due to the  
corporate world, it will end up in production anyway. (And that’s ok.)

I need a service that will process files over our network (https).  
Been needing a way to have a centralized encryption engine for our  
various interfaces - files sent to vendors, processed in from them,  
too. There are multiple machines that may be processing files in/out  
and I want one central keyring, one central encryption binary  
(currently gnupg) and whatnot.

So I thought about a service driven application that could, in a  
nutshell, be a wrapper for the gnupg binary.

If there is anything out there that does this already, do say so. The  
geek inside, however, just wants to write my own.

Thoughts? Do I use SOAP or REST? It’s not really that I want to use  
posts/gets…