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...service for a certain period of time and then give up? Right now my code is using a begin-rescue-else but sometimes I get a "execution expired" error if the webservice is not available or takes too long to respond. Thanks, Peter begin service = SOAP::RPC::Driver.new("http://www.webservicex.net/CurrencyConvertor.asmx","http://www.webserviceX.NET/") service.default_encodingstyle = SOAP::EncodingStyle::ASPDotNetHandler::Namespace service.add_method_with_soapaction("ConversionRate", "http://www.webserviceX.NET/ConversionRate", "FromCurrency&quo...

Hi, I''m interested in using a currency conversion web service in my rails app. Does anyone have a free service that they use and like? I found this one http://www.webservicex.net/WS/WSDetails.aspx?CATID=2&WSID=10 I''ve tried to make a simple, plain Ruby script to connect to this and get a conversion rate without success. How do I integrate a webservice into my rails app? I have looked in the Agile Rails book but can only see a tiny bit about this at the en...

I''m thinking of experimenting with some currency conversion. However, I''d like the conversions to be in synch with the current rates. Anyone know (and this maybe out in left field) if there is some online (perhaps xml) or other data stream I can connect with in my code to output values based on user selection ? TIA Stuart