What's the best way to use SOAP with Ruby?

Question

A client of mine has asked me to integrate a 3rd party API into their Rails app. The only problem is that the API uses SOAP. Ruby has basically dropped SOAP in favor of RE

Answer 1

I have used HTTP call like below to call a SOAP method,

require 'net/http'

class MyHelper
  def initialize(server, port, username, password)
    @server = server
    @port = port
    @username = username
    @password = password

    puts "Initialised My Helper using #{@server}:#{@port} username=#{@username}"
  end



  def post_job(job_name)

    puts "Posting job #{job_name} to update order service"

    job_xml ="
    
    
       
          ITE2
          topo
          #{job_name}
       
    
 "

    @http = Net::HTTP.new(@server, @port)
    puts "server: " + @server  + "port  : " + @port
    request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(('/XISOAPAdapter/MessageServlet?/Test/CreateUpdateOrders/1.0'), initheader = {'Content-Type' => 'text/xml'})
    request.basic_auth(@username, @password)
    request.body = job_xml
    response = @http.request(request)

    puts "request was made to server " + @server

    validate_response(response, "post_job_to_pega_updateorder job", '200')

  end



  private 

  def validate_response(response, operation, required_code)
    if response.code != required_code
      raise "#{operation} operation failed. Response was [#{response.inspect} #{response.to_hash.inspect} #{response.body}]"
    end
  end
end

/*
test = MyHelper.new("mysvr.test.test.com","8102","myusername","mypassword")
test.post_job("test_201601281419")
*/

Hope it helps. Cheers.