howto rebuild a object from a received xml hash structure ?

rubyonrails-talk
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im my web server app , i have an action to be used as a REST web service

  # GET /user/membership.xml?email=emailaddress   def membership     @user = User.find_by_email(params[:email])     respond_to do |format|       format.xml { render :xml => @user.to_xml( :only => [ :first_name, :last_name, :display_name, :membership_type, :membership_at], :skip_types => true)}     end   end

my client web app get it :

    @referee = Referee.new(params[:referee])     url = "http://#{WWW_HOST}/user/membership.xml? email=#{params[:referee][:email]}"     result = Net::HTTP.get(URI(url))     data = XmlSimple.xml_in(result)

------------ GOT IT BACK data => {"last-name"=>[{"nil"=>"true"}], "display-name"=>["chane850"], "first-name"=>[{"nil"=>"true"}], "membership- at"=>["2007-03-28T21:25:31Z"]}

how can I rebuild a membership object (not active record) from it, to reuse it late @membership = Membership.new @membership.last_name = data ??? that's the question !!!! ....

thanks for your lights

Erwin

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have you tried using the magic of activeresource (the web services bit not just the nice routes and helpers)

try this link for starters. It's a little out of date, but activeresource has just got a whole lot better http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2007/3/14/rest-activeresource

You should be able to just make a class that inherits from ActiveResource::Base and it will interface nicely with your web server app.

Joe