Creating xml in controller and send to Web Service

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Hi All,

I have a question regarding creating xml in controller class… I am
designing a rails application, which is a client for java REST based Web
services. in my rails client part, in my view, I have a simple
index.html.erb which consists of 2 strings ‘source’ , ‘destination’ . I
will take the input from user and send those to controller class. with
those 2 inputs i need to create a xml file in controller and send that
to REST based web service…
My question is,

  1. How to create xml consisting of those 2 values.
    if possible, can anyone tell me How can I send that to REST WS ? As I
    am very new to Ruby, I don’t have much knowledge on this…

your help is highly appreciated…

Thanks,
Bhargavi.