How to use API from AWS -- help!

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi, my recommendation is to the following:

a) invoke and verify that your external webservice using script/console

    user_api = ActionWebService::Client::XmlRpc.new(UserApi,       "http://localhost:3000/user/api/RPC2"

b) If (a) is working as expected, then you should read and follow the information      in 25.7 of AWDwRv2.

     If not, then you should follow an incremental development approach to correct      the code:

     code A      test A      debug A      code A      test A      debug A      and so on.

     You may not need to debug in every case and you'll continue this process      until you have completed the implementation. Why do it this way? It seems      that you have implemented alot of code without testing it until the very end.      Also, I have don't have time to do it for you and this is something that you need      to learn.

     Good luck,

     -Conrad

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Hi,

You might also try hitting it with curl:

curl -H "Content-Type: text/xml" -H "SoapAction: authenticate" -d @msg -X POST http://localhost:3000/user/api

where @msg is a file with the SOAP or xml message.

I have experience more on the server side of exposing web services from a rails controller, not so much in consuming services using ActionWebService::Client. If all the applications will be rails consider activeresource instead of AWS.

Good luck.