From: "Saji N. Hameed" <saji@...21.net>
Date: 2008-05-26T21:27:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby book for DRb, SOAP and friends

* S2 <email@fin.ta> [2008-05-26 17:19:38 +0900]:

> Saji N. Hameed wrote:
>> Dear List,
>>
>> Any recommendations for a Ruby book that has substantial coverage
>> on DRb, SOAP and such similar functions that may aid distributed
>
> Sorry, I don't know about any books that cover soap4r in depth. The  
> Agile Web Development with Rails covers some aspects of AWS, and there  
> is the online manual of AWS at 
> http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/book/10
> I wrote a blog post just 2 days ago about how to consume Web Services  
> with soap4r over a ssl mutual authentication protected channel.
> http://s2.diffuse.it/blog/show/62_Consume+SSL+protected+Web+Services+with+soap4r
> soap4r is not that difficult to grasp, may I ask what you are looking  
> for in such a book?

Thanks...

We are writing a utility to serve and manage geophysical data (mostly
climate data).  Currently we use DRb
+ some data manipulation software. However DRb can only be used between
ruby scripts and I understand that SOAP can enable other non-ruby clients
to access the services provided by the data server. 
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Saji N. Hameed

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