Yep, it does support soap. I just played around with it a bit, and it looks like savon will make it very easy to do.
Thanks for the suggestion. -- Ylan On Tuesday, July 5, 2011 9:49:21 PM UTC-7, Matt Aimonetti wrote: > > If the web API is a soap interface then use savon, otherwise nokogiri works > great, depending on the amount of requests you're doing, you might want to > use a non blocking http client. > > - Matt > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 5, 2011, at 21:44, Allan Schougaard <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have had good experiences with Savon: <http://savonrb.com> > http://savonrb.com > > --Allan > > > *From:* Ylan <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Tue, July 5, 2011 6:29:31 PM > *Subject:* [SDRuby] Should I use Nokogiri and HTTParty for a consuming an > xml web service? > > Hey Everyone, > > I find myself in need of consuming a xml web service. It looks like I'll > need to: > > - Create post request with an xml document in the body of the request. > - Parse the resulting xml and do some mapping to my ActiveRecord objects > and handle errors. > - Do this for about 5 different requests / responses. > > My research suggest that the tools to use are: > - HTTParty for communicating with the web services server. > - Nokogiri for the XML creation and parsing > > Does anyone have any other recommendations? > > I appreciate the input. > > -- > Ylan > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > <http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby> > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > > -- > SD Ruby mailing list > [email protected] > <http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby> > http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby > > -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby
