Re: Need help using Savon gem! (SOAP)

Dan Cruickshank wrote:
> I'm hoping a require can fix it but I'm not having any luck. I don't 
> understand why I'd need to require something inside of rails that I 
> don't in my test.

Do you have the soap4r gem installed? There's an old and now rather 
broken soap4r in the ruby standard library. Perhaps you're using the gem 
in one environment and not the other. Worse, perhaps you have loaded 
part of the old soap4r before gems are activated, and another part 
afterwards.

At the line before the error in fax_api.rb you could break into debugger 
and poke around, or add debugging statements like
  STDERR.puts $LOAD_PATH.inspect
  STDERR.puts ::SOAP.constants.inspect

Also: take your working test code and run it using
  script/runner whatever.rb
which will first boot up the rails environment, then run the script you 
provide. Does it now fail?

What about using script/console instead of irb?

If you can make a standalone test case which is just a couple of lines 
that you run from script/runner or script/console, that would be an 
ideal way to get the problem resolved quickly.

> FaxApi - Throws an "uninitialized constant FaxApi::WSDLDriverFactory"
> error when called from the controller

Are you sure that's the error it gives? Not FaxAPI::SOAP ?

Now, I agree you don't need to require soap if you have done this in 
your fax_api.rb file. But you could try this at the top of fax_api.rb:

gem 'soap4r'
require 'soap/wsdlDriver'

and/or declare the soap4r gem dependency in config/environment.rb

And for extra belt-and-braces use ::SOAP instead of SOAP, i.e. change

    def wsdl
      @soap ||= 
SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new("https://ws.interfax.net/dfs.asmx?WSDL")
    end

to

    def wsdl
      @soap ||= 
::SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new("https://ws.interfax.net/dfs.asmx?WSDL")
    end

I wouldn't worry about the return value from 'require', since Rails 
mucks around with the internals of require (as well as const_missing 
stuff). But if none of the above helps, check what version of rubygems 
you have installed. If it's not the latest, try upgrading it.

HTH,

Brian.
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