From: brabuhr@...
Date: 2007-01-23T03:00:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Web Services Client

On 1/22/07, Peter Hollenbeck <pwhbeck@comcast.net> wrote:
> Jeremy McAnally wrote:
> > String sendmsg    = soapAction+".xml";
> >
> > Ah it looks like you're using SOAP; check out the soap4r project. :)
>
> Thanks. I still don't see how to send and XML message and get an XML
> response. Maybe it's beyond me.

Do you have a WSDL for the service?

http://www.zorched.net/2006/02/09/ruby-soap4r-for-web-services/
    service = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(WSDL_URL).create_rpc_driver
    service.wiredump_dev = STDOUT if $DEBUG

    p service.SearchContacts(:search => 'some_name')

http://www.pranavbihari.com/articles/2005/12/02/testing-paypal-web-services-with-ruby-soap4r
http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2006/04/02/ruby-soap4r-wsdl-hell