From: bluengreen <pnovess@...>
Date: 2007-04-20T07:40:05+09:00
Subject: SOAP4R WSDL Factory is horked!  Anyone want to comment on why SOAP sucks in Ruby?

Hello,

I spent hours trying to find  a solution to why some basic code that
was actually pulled directly from page 630 of the O'Reilly Ruby
Cookboook.

require 'soap/wsdlDriver'
wsdl = 'http://services.xmethods.net/soap/urn:xmethods-delayed-
quotes.wsdl'
driver = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdl).create_rpc_driver
puts 'Stock Price: %.2f' % driver.getQuote('TR')

Why would this not work as expected on a Fedora Core 5 box? I get this
error:

/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:562:in `initialize': Connection refused
- connect(2) (Errno::ECONNREFUSED)
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:562:in `connect'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:48:in `timeout'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:76:in `timeout'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:562:in `connect'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:555:in `do_start'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:544:in `start'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/netHttpClient.rb:115:in `start'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/netHttpClient.rb:92:in `post'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/streamHandler.rb:170:in
`send_post'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/streamHandler.rb:109:in `send'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/rpc/proxy.rb:170:in `route'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/rpc/proxy.rb:141:in `call'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/rpc/driver.rb:178:in `call'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/soap/rpc/driver.rb:232:in `getQuote'
        from soap_test.rb:17

Its so basic. And yet it seems like there is no one other than myself
getting this error. At least I can't find a single peep from anything
on Google.

Thanks,
Phill