Rails - Feb 2007 - Web services in Rails - inconvenient???

I''m semi-new to Rails, and the work I''m doing now requires a
few
Rails-based web services to interact to form the whole of our project.
I have some things working using ActionWebService, but it seems as
though I have to put the "whatever_api.rb" file in the /app/apis
folder
EVERY time I want to use the API.  This doesn''t seem right when I
realizing how much Rails attempts to keep things DRY.

I''m almost positive I''m doing something wrong, here. 
I''m not using REST
in my applications, but I don''t know if that''s an alternative.

Can I simply use ".to_xml"?  And what exactly does the WSDL for?  Does
that play into this at all?  Unfortunately, another .NET application has
to call the web-service, but that shouldn''t be an issue, right?

I''d love to have someone who is more experienced than I to shed some
light on how he/she would handle a few web-services in Rails.  My main
problem is avoiding the distribution of the "whatever_api.rb" file
across all of the applications, causing me to update each and every one
if something changes.  Plus I have multiple files.  I''m just searching
for a better solution.

Thanks a lot for any insight.

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rph wrote:
> I''m semi-new to Rails, and the work I''m doing now
requires a few
> Rails-based web services to interact to form the whole of our project.
Excellent.  Do yourself an enormous favor and pick up a copy of Agile
Web Development with Rails (2nd ed), available as a book or PDF.

It has a whole section on web services, where you''ll learn how to use
the web_service generator to scaffold up your web services and get to
the good stuff quickly.
> I have some things working using ActionWebService, but it seems as
> though I have to put the "whatever_api.rb" file in the /app/apis
folder
> EVERY time I want to use the API.
That file is created for your automatically when you scaffold a web
service.

If you can''t afford the book, try Google for:

    rails web services

Just be wary of RESTful services without checking that your .NET
developers are prepared to consume them.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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