You can use Net::HTTP, which is part of the standard Ruby library, to make the external request. REXML, also part of the standard library, can parse it, though I'd suggest using Nokogiri for that instead.
On Feb 8, 2010 11:43 AM, "Erwin" <[email protected]> wrote: I have to write a call from my rails app to an external URL : http://999:[email protected]/apis/media.php?action=createCollection&collection_id=123 then I should get back an XML answer , to be parsed (I need to reuse these info into my web app) <collection> <id>180</id> <partner_id>2</partner_id> <name>myNewCollection</name> <description>this is my new sports collection</description> <collection_type>static</collection_type> <thumbnail_media_id/> <token>7fd77f35ba63b07a19d8eb995d66215f</token> <parent_collection_id>123</parent_collection_id> <path>/123/180</path> </collection> where should I look for info on it ? as I don't supply a return URL, I don't know how to handle the answer in Rails ... thanks for your help.. yves -- 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]<rubyonrails-talk%[email protected]> . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. -- 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.
