Talking to a Rails Web Service (API)
As much as I like rails, there are parts that are undocumented. This is sometimes frustrating, but often a great learning exercise as it means looking at the rails source for answers.
I wanted to write a simple ruby script to access a SOAP web service I’d implemented as part of a web app. There are a couple of key things that are required which I found hard to find in the documentation. “Convention not configuration”, only works when the convention is known!
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