On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:47 PM, jon <JonKin...@gmail.com> wrote:

>  So I've been banging my head against the wall for 3 days trying to
>  figure out how to access a pre-defied web service for a project that
>  I'm working on. It doesn't use simple http auth, I need to embed my
>  credentials in the header using some methods defined in the WSDL and
>  I'm stuck.

>  I installed soap4r (I think it's installed right, can you check the
>  version or something at the command line?) but I don't know how to
>  make sure the new version that I installed is used. I've seen some
>  things that say you have to put a call in the boot.rb file? That seems
>  weird. Maybe you don't need that anymore? Info seems scattered and
>  old.

>  Anyway, I have generated the driver.rb, defaultDriver.rb,
>  defaultMappingRegistry.rb and the generic implementation file, mine is
>  called WsFindCustAcctsServiceClient.rb. I used wsdl2ruby from the live
>  WSDL but I don't know how to extend the code. I don't know where to
>  start...

>  What do I have access to in the WsFindCustAcctsServiceClient.rb file?
>  Can I access methods in the default.rb file? Does that help me? How do
>  I use some methods to inject my credentials in the header XML?

>  I haven't worked with web services before so be gentile... I'm not a
>  rails noob, but I also haven't gone much further than what is included
>  in the box.

>  Any help would be GREATLY appreciated! I'm very nervous about my lack
>  of progress with this.

felipe.contre...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:47 PM, jon <JonKin...@gmail.com> wrote:

> >  So I've been banging my head against the wall for 3 days trying to
> >  figure out how to access a pre-defied web service for a project that
> >  I'm working on. It doesn't use simple http auth, I need to embed my
> >  credentials in the header using some methods defined in the WSDL and
> >  I'm stuck.

> >  I installed soap4r (I think it's installed right, can you check the
> >  version or something at the command line?) but I don't know how to
> >  make sure the new version that I installed is used. I've seen some
> >  things that say you have to put a call in the boot.rb file? That seems
> >  weird. Maybe you don't need that anymore? Info seems scattered and
> >  old.

> ruby -e "require 'soap/soap'; puts SOAP::VERSION"

> >  Anyway, I have generated the driver.rb, defaultDriver.rb,
> >  defaultMappingRegistry.rb and the generic implementation file, mine is
> >  called WsFindCustAcctsServiceClient.rb. I used wsdl2ruby from the live
> >  WSDL but I don't know how to extend the code. I don't know where to
> >  start...

> >  What do I have access to in the WsFindCustAcctsServiceClient.rb file?
> >  Can I access methods in the default.rb file? Does that help me? How do
> >  I use some methods to inject my credentials in the header XML?

> >  I haven't worked with web services before so be gentile... I'm not a
> >  rails noob, but I also haven't gone much further than what is included
> >  in the box.

> >  Any help would be GREATLY appreciated! I'm very nervous about my lack
> >  of progress with this.

> You can try to check my own driver wrapper:

> http://people.freedesktop.org/~felipec/msn/ruby/myDriver.rb<http://people.freedesktop.org/%7Efelipec/msn/ruby/myDriver.rb>

> Best regards.
> --
> Felipe Contreras