From: vasudevram <vasudevram@...>
Date: 2008-05-27T01:24:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby book for DRb, SOAP and friends

On May 26, 5:27 pm, "Saji N. Hameed" <s...@apcc21.net> wrote:
> * S2 <em...@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+...
> > 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.
> --
> Saji N. Hameed
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