Re: soap4r and nws.noaa.gov

Quoting [e-mail], on Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 10:27:58AM +0900:
> I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but has anyone 
> used soap4r with the US weather service's soap server?  I'm having 
> trouble figuring out how the array that the service uses should map 
> into ruby.  I've tried using wsdl2ruby to convert the wsdl 
> automatically to a ruby class, but that doesn't even work.  Also, if 
> this is the wrong place to be asking this (probably...), could someone 
> point me in the right direction?  Thanks.

I suspect ruby-talk might be a better place to ask, I've seen soap
questions there, and I've seen them answered fairly promptly.

Btw, I want to do this soon, so if you figure out how to do it and feel
like posting a code snippet or explanation to ruby-talk or just to me, I
would very VERY much appreciate it.


I want to write a webrick server that publishes an iCalendar over http,
where the next 5 days weather shows up in the iCalendar as a series of
"events".  Basically, I want to look at my calendar in  the morning, and
see if one of the dozen climbing areas within a days drive looks like
the weather will be good, and if they coincide with long weekends, and I
don't want to have to go to 10 web pages every day. And what I really
want is for iCalendar to email me when the weather looks good, and tell
me where to go, which I could do by setting VALARMS.

I've written the icalendar library, webrick is easy, I'm almost done
Rendezvous support so I can see my server without typing in IP addrs...

SOAP connections to the weather service is the last technical chunk
missing. I was hoping it was going to be easy, now I'm worried, because
I don't really know anything about web services.

Cheers,
Sam