Simon Twigger @ MCW

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Starfish - Ruby distributed programming

By Simon • Oct 10th, 2006 • Category: Ruby

This is a note to me - find some time to check out Starfish (see http://tech.rufy.com/ and http://rufy.com/starfish/doc/)

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Ruby web services

By Simon • Sep 26th, 2006 • Category: Ruby, Semantic Web & Web Services

My current obession is learning and using the Ruby programming language, both for web appls (using Rails) and in general as an alternative to perl. I did some webservice stuff today and its incredibly easy, you can try this in the irb

require 'soap/wsdlDriver'
wsdl = 'http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/webservices/wsdl/WSDbfetch.wsdl'
driver = SOAP::WSDLDriverFactory.new(wsdl).create_rpc_driver
puts driver.getSupportedDBs()

This three line snippet calls the WSDbfetch service [...]