From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-08-08T00:03:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby-Perl IPC messaging API (idea from SOAP)

On Mon, 7 Aug 2006, Rickard Sjostrom wrote:

> Hi!
> I want to something like SOAP but with local IPC (dont want to use HTTP
> and dont want to waste ports). In my case I want to be able to start
> Perl-scripts from Ruby without having to parse some strange
> self-invented text string from input/output to convert it to data
> structures, but I could probably easily implement this with XML but it
> would be nice if there exists some solution already.
>
> I guess that this means that I want to convert data structures to and
> from XML like SOAP does!
>
> Is there anything like this that can do it for me?
>
> /Rick

perl and ruby both speak yaml - why not use it - it will be far less pain.

-a
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