similar to: web_client_api within ActiveRecord

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

I am writting a web service for authenitcation of users and was using web_service_scaffold :invoke for testing it out...and was able to consume it using .NET. But my question is, whats the simplest method using which i can use the same web service in the current Web App. I mean, not from an external application or something but from the current web apps itself. I found one method in AWDR, and

I''m building a users web service (direct dispatching) that will (I hope) allow several other applications to manage the same pool of users. Plus it will act as a single-sign-on solution for what I''m doing. But I''m having difficulty accessing the UserAPI. Here''s what I''ve done so far: $> rails usermanagement - "usermanagement" is the

Hi *, I need to pass a hash to a webservice, so I defined my API with: api_method :search, :expects => [{ :tags => :string, :assignment => :string, :resource => :string, :lesson_plan => :string, :subject => :string, :all_types => :string }], :returns => [[Resource]] when I try to test the webservice with scaffold the

Hi I am tryng to mirror a locked away, secure web service for testing purposes and am almost there. Hoever as part of the definition for the structure of the call to the webservice, I have this struct. class MyCall < ActionWebService::Struct member :username, :string member :password, :string member :"remote-ip", :string end However this does not work... Should

Hi all, I have a question concerning ActionWebService XMLRPC servers: Is it possible to send multicall requests to the Web service? I tried to use multicall and get the error message: no such method ''system.multicall'' on API [MyAPI] In Changeset 2021 there is the following commit message: add ''system.multicall'' support to XML-RPC. boxcarred methods must

I''m trying to connect to a SOAP interface using Rails and I''m running into a snag. I''m relatively new to Rails at this point and am in the very beginning stages of understanding how the system works. Currently I''m running into a error that looks like this: -------------------------------------------- Missing API definition file in apis/amazon_api.rb

i am reading through chapter 20 of the agile web development book and trying to figure out how to use web services. i set up two different rails apps. one as the server and one as the client. setting up the server seems to work fine. but when i use the example at the end of the chapter to set up a client, i get the following error when i open the page: Missing API definition file in

Hi all, I''ve got a Rails app with a ApplicationController that looks like this: class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base before_filter :authorize, :except => :login def authorize unless session[:user] flash[:notice] = "Please log in" session[:jumpto] = request.parameters redirect_to :controller =>

Hi all, How do folks generally secure their Rails web services? A password in a config file? A ''webservice'' user in a ''Users'' table with its own password? LDAP authentication for every method? Only authenticate on the "important" methods? Something else I''m not thinking of? I''d like to be secure, yet practical, for the sake

For some time now I try to get my code working. This Monday I switched to RJS (first with 1.0 + plugin) and yesterday to Edge Rails, so I guess I''ve been using the most recent version. I have a div with id="detail" which I want to update with a partial. If I''m using page.replace_html the content will be replaced with text, i.e. the javascript won''t become

I have written SOAP web service in ruby using datanoise-actionwebservice gem but webservice sends following error in response: Exception of type System.InvalidOperationException: Client found response content type of ''text/html; charset=utf-8'', but expected ''text/xml''. The request failed with the error message: -- POST not supported --. please help ...

Hi, After following the excellent tutorials in the Agile Web Development with Rails book, I was able to get my webservice working pretty much perfectly :) I can access it via SOAP and XML-RPC and look at service.wsdl to find the API. What I can''t do however is get the API for the XML-RPC call. It fails with : Internal protocol error: NilClass is not a valid input stream. It must

I think I am missing something terribly obvious. Is it possible to have an :expects parameter for a webservice that is an array of objects? I want to have a single webservice that expects all my line items (for an order). Is this something that is possible? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi all, Ruby 1.8.4 Rails 1.1.2 I''m a newb when it comes to SOAP, but I thought I''d give it a shot. I have several web services defined. However, when I try to connect with a SOAP client it seems the client is only picking up one of the services, called Hardware. require ''soap/wsdlDriver'' wsdl_url =

I have written a webservice: ----------- Service.cs ---------------- using System; using System.Web; using System.Web.Services; using System.Web.Services.Protocols; [WebService(Namespace = "http://tempuri.org/")] [WebServiceBinding(ConformsTo = WsiProfiles.BasicProfile1_1)] public class Service : System.Web.Services.WebService { [WebMethod] public string HelloWorld(string name)

Hi First off, I apologise if this is covered somewhere and I just don''t get it... I''ve looked far and wide .... As a part of my current project I need to hook up to a particular XMLRPC webservice that won''t be available for me to use until close to launch date... So I am trying to recreate the webservice that mirrors the live one so I can test my application

Hi, I have a webservice. And I want to pass in, a model. So, for example: api_method :save_person, :expects => [Person] When I do this I get an error saying that I cannot have ActiveRecord objects as parameters. Fine. I can have AWS Structs as parameters. I don''t want to start ''maintaining'' a struct everytime I change the table structure od Persons. So, is

I''m trying to consume a webservice from my rails application and have discovered an interesting problem. I can call webservice functions just fine, as long as they do not require any arguments, but function that do require arguments do not work. The arguments are sent as either null or an empty string. My API has these method definitions: api_method :otherFunction,

Hello i have some trouble getting my webservice to run . I have the following webservice : class DirectSpoolAPI < ActionWebService::API::Base api_method :add, :expects => [{:html=>:string},{:from=>:string}], :returns => [Customer] end class DirectSpoolService < ActionWebService::Base web_service_api DirectSpoolAPI def add(html,from) Customer.find(:first) end