Just in case anyone is interested, I''ve just published an article on the SOA Ranch that walks you through, step by step, how to consume a web service from within a Rails application. The article is available at: http://www.soaranch.com/articles/2006/8/3/soa-on-rails-part-2-consuming-a-rails-web-service-from-a-rails-application.html This part shows how to consume a Rails-provided web service as part of ActionWebService. The next part in the series will look at using third-party services. Hope you like the article! Cheers, Russ Miles http://www.russmiles.com http://www.UMLRanch.com http://www.SOARanch.com