# WebServices & Ruby on Rails

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webservices-ruby-on-rails/48687>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 23, 2005, 1:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webservices-ruby-on-rails/48687 "2005-11-23T13:37:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![dan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/eada6e/32.png) [@dan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dan)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 1:37pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webservices-ruby-on-rails/48687/1 "2005-11-23T13:37:42Z")

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Hi,

basically I have two questions:

- Is it possible to call WebServices via SOAP with Ruby? I thought of  
generation of client using WSDL and reading e.g. data from another  
system using SOAP.
- How is this done and how much effort does it require?

Thank you and best regards,  
Daniel

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**Author:** ![dan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/eada6e/32.png) [@dan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dan)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webservices-ruby-on-rails/48687/2 "2005-11-23T17:17:59Z")

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Thank you very much! I will try this.

Regards,  
Daniel

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**Author:** ![dan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/eada6e/32.png) [@dan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dan)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 4:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webservices-ruby-on-rails/48687/3 "2005-11-23T16:54:39Z")

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You can do that with soap4r:

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

eduard

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**Author:** ![dan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/eada6e/32.png) [@dan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dan)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 6:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/webservices-ruby-on-rails/48687/4 "2005-11-30T18:07:37Z")

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Dan \<moon\_lord@…\> writes:

> Thank you very much! I will try this.
> 
> Regards,  
> Daniel

Dan -

I believe the Pick Axe II book has an example of using Google  
webservices to  
perform queries.

Dave

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