From: Jan Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2007-01-17T04:53:51+09:00
Subject: Re: rubygems soap/wsdlDriver issue

On 1/16/07, Alin Alin <alinutzzu@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Recently I discover one problem into one of my Ruby scripts.
> These are the steps that I made:
>
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'soap/wsdlDriver'
>
> wsdl="http://localhost:8080/axis/ServiceTest.jws?wsdl"
> driver=SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdl).create_rpc_driver
>
> ... and I got the following error:
>
>  NoMethodError: undefined method `new' for nil:NilClass
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/xsd/xmlparser/parser.rb:33:in
> `create_parser'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/xsd/xmlparser.rb:17:in `create_parser'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/wsdl/parser.rb:53:in `initialize'
>         from
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/soap4r-1.5.5.20061022/lib/wsdl/importer.rb:29:in
> `parse'
>         from
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/soap4r-1.5.5.20061022/lib/wsdl/xmlSchema/importer.rb:30:in
> `import'
>         from
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/soap4r-1.5.5.20061022/lib/wsdl/importer.rb:18:in
> `import'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/wsdlDriver.rb:124:in `import'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/wsdlDriver.rb:28:in `initialize'
>         from (irb):4
>         from :0
>
> Is this a well known issue ? Because I didn't find too much help over
> Internet regarding this.
>
> OS: Ubuntu Edgy (6.10)
> Ruby version: 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i486-linux]
> soap4r: (1.5.5.20061022)
> rubygems-update: 0.9.0
>
> Please, some solutions ?
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alin

You are mixing two versions of soap4r: one bundled with ruby, the
other installed as gem.
Maybe this will be helpful: http://dev.ctor.org/soap4r
Either remove the gem, use the require_gem or replace the sources in
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8 with those from gem.

J.