I got this sorted out. I ended up creating the new ActiveRecord object and passing the xml from builder into that.
Thank you for your help. On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Casey Ellett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll give this a go tonight. Thanks. > > > On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Sheryl Barrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Frederick Cheung < >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> > Or am I going down the wrong path here? I don't actually need to >>> > view the xml at any point - I'm actually going to pull it out of the >>> > database at a later point and send it up to a web service. Or I >>> > guess I could send it as it's generated, I just want to save it to >>> > pull it later if need be. >>> >> >> We do this very same thing. It may or may not be the best solution, but >> we store the xml in a temp file on the server, and then have the path listed >> in our MySQL database as text. We just read the whole thing and pass to the >> web service when we're ready to move on. >> >> Our process goes like this: >> >> 1) Customer creates a cart and checks out. >> 2) Call web services to generate the completed order xml. >> 3) Save order xml into temp text file and put the path into the db. >> 4) Display confirmation page with totals/taxes (generated from web >> service). >> 5) If confirmed, read order xml and call save method in web service. >> >> It's simple and doesn't require a whole bunch of coding. It also gives >> you a nice history to look at if there are any problems with the xml. >> >> We remove the xml temp file once the order has been completed so it >> doesn't eat all of our server space. >> >> Hope this helps! >> >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
