From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2007-04-20T07:55:38+09:00
Subject: Re: SOAP4R WSDL Factory is horked!  Anyone want to comment on why SOAP sucks in Ruby?

bluengreen wrote:
> 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.

Read the error message you posted. Your connection is refused in the 
first place.

irb(main):001:0> require 'soap/wsdlDriver'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> wsdl = 
'http://services.xmethods.net/soap/urn:xmethods-delayed-quotes.wsdl'
=> "http://services.xmethods.net/soap/urn:xmethods-delayed-quotes.wsdl"
irb(main):003:0> driver = 
SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdl).create_rpc_driver
=> #<SOAP::RPC::Driver:#<SOAP::RPC::Proxy:http://38.102.129.128:9090/soap>>
irb(main):004:0> puts 'Stock Price: %.2f' % driver.getQuote('TR')
Stock Price: 29.81
=> nil
irb(main):005:0> VERSION
=> "1.8.5"
irb(main):007:0> Time.now
=> Fri Apr 20 00:55:53 +0200 2007


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