For kicks, I thought I'd see what it would take to set up a webservice in Ruby/Rails. (about 10 mins for the impatient)
There used to be a gem called actionwebservice, but it looks like it's been removed from Rails so install datanoise-actionwebservice instead.
sudo gem install datanoise-actionwebservice --source http://gems.github.com
Now, set up a quick rails app and configure the environment.
rails ws-test
Edit the config/environment.rb file:
1) Find the load_paths section and add:
config.load_paths += %W( #{RAILS_ROOT}/app/apis )2) Find the config.gem section and add:
config.gem 'datanoise-actionwebservice', :lib => 'actionwebservice',
:version => '2.3.2'
Ok, now lets take advantage of that config work we just did...
Create the app/apis directory that we referenced in the environment.rb file
mkdir app/apis
Create the app/apis/hello_world_api.rb file
class HelloWorldApi < ActionWebService::API::Base
api_method :hello_message, :expects => [{:name=>:string}], :returns => [:string]
end
Create a controller in app/controller/hello_world_controller.rb
class HelloWorldController < ApplicationController
web_service_api HelloWorldApi
web_service_dispatching_mode :direct
wsdl_service_name 'hello_message'
web_service_scaffold :invoke
def hello_message( name )
return "Hello #{name}"
end
end
Finally, fire it up...
script/server
And browse to http://localhost:3000/hello_world/invoke for a spiffy web page or http://localhost:3000/hello_world/wsdl for the WSDL.
UPDATE (4/7/2010): You can also use script/generate on webservices
script/generate web_service HelloWorld
create app/services/
exists app/controllers/
exists test/functional/
create app/services/hello_world_api.rb
create app/controllers/hello_world_controller.rb
create test/functional/hello_world_api_test.rb
