While I'm thrilled about REST, I still need to interface with the real
world, and SOAP is unfortunately a necessary API interface for my
upcoming application.
What is the status of Activewebservice? Are people using it still? I
see on github that there is a version that SORT of works with RoR
2.2.2 (my API works there anyway) but there are some buglets in it --
the first API call always fails, and every following call works. I
have as part of my deploy script a small script that just calls an
(unpublished but harmless) dummy function to "wake up" the API.
Gross, and likely problematic once it is used by more than one person.
I know the RoR developers have chosen REST, and I agree it is easier,
but what of those who have to interface with real-world applications
where we simply cannot dictate an API?
While I'm thrilled about REST, I still need to interface with the real
world, and SOAP is unfortunately a necessary API interface for my
upcoming application.
What is the status of Activewebservice? Are people using it still? I
see on github that there is a version that SORT of works with RoR
2.2.2 (my API works there anyway) but there are some buglets in it --
the first API call always fails, and every following call works. I
have as part of my deploy script a small script that just calls an
(unpublished but harmless) dummy function to "wake up" the API.
Gross, and likely problematic once it is used by more than one person.
Well there's the datanoise-actionwebservice thingy. Personally I'm
still using the actionwebservice that I pulled out of rails 1.2.6. I
don't use it very heavily but it does still basically work.