From: John Lam <drjflam@...>
Date: 2005-06-30T11:45:03+09:00
Subject: Re: ASP.NET vs Ruby on Rails

>> My question is this. Your brief experience with Rails and web services; how
was it. Any pointers for me?

Our experience with SOAP4R was not good. We wound up using ERb to
generate XML docs and sending them via HTTP POST to our ASP.NET web
service. SOAP4R barfed something awful on our ASMX-generated WSDL -
which does not use any bizarre XSD stuff nor estoeric WSDL features.

I had a similar experience when I first started experimenting with
SOAP4R with the Amazon Web Services - I wound up doing everything via
their REST interfaces instead.

Hopefully you'll have a better experience with SOAP4R but I couldn't
imagine a simpler "real" interface than the one that we expose -
essentially arrays of structs that contain strings (and only strings).

Cheers,
-John
http://www.iunknown.com