From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-04-13T05:38:26+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby/Google

In article <200204121527.g3CFREm44481@green.bikeshed.org>,
Brian F. Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> As part of my continuing efforts to master Ruby, I've released version
>> 0.1.0 of Ruby/Google.
>> 
>> This library offers a higher-level abstraction of Google's new
>> SOAP-driven Web API. The aim of the library is to make the details of
>> the raw data structures returned by the Web API irrelevant, in the
>> process making the API more accessible for everyday use.
>> 
>> The code is of alpha quality, but seems to do as it's told, in spite
>> of my newness to the language. :-)
>> 
>> Demonstration programs are included in the archive.
>> 
>> I encourage people to try it out and let me know what they think.
>
>Neat, I was hoping someone would do this for until we have WSDL support :-)  
>It seems to work pretty well (except for alternately a search succeeding and 
>getting a weird SOAP error..., but I think that's SOAP4R's fault and will 
>try to figure out more later).


OK, I'll display my ignorance of many web related things: What is WSDL and 
what does it do for us?

Phil