Webservice in ruby

Question

Hello,

How can I make a webservice in ruby that interact with ruby web application.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You have not given us a lot to go on here however it is likely that you are interested in one or more of the following. Try googling them to see which one will do what you want

• ActiveResource
• ActionWebService
• Savon/Handsoap

Answer 2

For simple stupid web service you can't go past Sinatra

http://www.sinatrarb.com/

The cannonical example.

require 'rubygems'
require 'sinatra'

get '/hi' do
    "Hello World!"
end

That's it