How do I generate a WSDL using Ruby?

Question

I starting to work with Ruby and Soap and had some questions:

How do I generate a WSDL file for the service I created? Will it be compatible with an .NET client ?

Answer 1

ActionWebService (previously in Rails core, now a gem) has tools to generate WSDL files. You can use the tools even if you're not running your service within Rails.

http://www.datanoise.com/articles/2008/7/2/actionwebservice-is-back

As for whether it will work with a .NET client, the answer is maybe. Many .NET clients seem to expect Microsoft's "extended" SOAP info, which .NET webservices provide by default. If the client is also able to consume a service without that extra stuff, then sure.

UPDATE #1

The above link no longer appears to work. There are however forks of ActionWebService that have popped up over on github. You can see a pretty good list of them here. Here are a couple of links to some key versions:

• original datanoise version
• clevertechru's port, works w/ Rails 3.1.* & Ruby 1.9