Getting Rid of soap4r

rubyonrails-talk
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Hello,

I'm maintaining a legacy app that crashes when I remove the "gem soap4r" line from boot.rb. As far as I can tell, nothing in this app uses soap. The app doesn't complain when I switch the Rails gem to 1.1.6 from 1.2.6. Does anyone know how I can find out what is needing the soap4r gem so I can get rid of it? Here's the error I get when mongrel tries to start under 1.2.6:

** Starting Mongrel listening at 0.0.0.0:3000 ** Starting Rails with development environment... /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.4/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:477:in `const_missing': uninitialized constant XSD::NS::KNOWN_TAG (NameError)   from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/soap4r-1.5.8/lib/soap/ns.rb:18   from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require'   from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `require'   from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.4/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:495:in `require'   from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.4/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:342:in `new_constants_in'   from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.4/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:495:in `require'   from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/soap4r-1.5.8/lib/soap/generator.rb:10   from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem_original_require'    ... 58 levels...   from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.4/bin/../lib/mongrel/ command.rb:212:in `run'   from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.4/bin/mongrel_rails:281   from /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/mongrel_rails:16:in `load'   from /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/mongrel_rails:16

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If you're not using activewebservice, just get rid of that library and it should clear out this error.

Jason

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Unfortunately we run another app that does use soap4r, so I can't just remove it from my system. I do want to get it off this particular app though. Any other ideas?

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I think what he meant was to remove it in environment.rb:

config.frameworks -= :action_web_service