# Web service in Ruby consumed by a C# client

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-service-in-ruby-consumed-by-a-c-client/175035>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 6, 2009, 7:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-service-in-ruby-consumed-by-a-c-client/175035 "2009-09-06T19:57:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Phylroy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/839c29/32.png) [@Phylroy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phylroy)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2009, 7:57pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-service-in-ruby-consumed-by-a-c-client/175035/1 "2009-09-06T19:57:46Z")

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Now it is my understanding that Rails no longer officially supports  
ActionWebService and WSDL generation, and the new approach is RESTful  
webservices with WADL.

The client app consuming the webservice is a C# application. It is my  
undertanding that there is no easy way to consume a WADL service from  
Visual Studio?

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**Author:** ![Phylroy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/839c29/32.png) [@Phylroy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Phylroy)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2009, 9:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/web-service-in-ruby-consumed-by-a-c-client/175035/2 "2009-09-07T09:51:11Z")

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To my knowledge, the only way of consuming WADL services in .Net is  
through HTTPRequests and XML parsing, but of course i could be wrong  
so maybe more googling or posting the question over at a .NET group  
might be more helpful 🙂