how to create a web service

Question

I building a website with Ruby on Rails framework. The site will contain a flash application that will interact with the rails application using web service. My partner buil

Answer 1

You'll be going through more pain than you need to by using WSDL.

Instead, I recommend creating a REST interface that returns json (or xml) -- you'll find in rails it will just work.

So you'll have things like:

/books # returns a list of books. Also do Searching here
/books/1 # return the detail of a book with ID of 1

Search for "REST Rails" and you'll get examples of controllers that will return JSON and XML depending on what the client requests.